the taboo when you sleep, sleep
Make a miracle is a great thing, but not so great. Make a miracle is to be still in the world of the ego. True greatness is not to be so ordinary claim any size, be so common as not to show anything even groped.
A man went to Lin Chi and said, "My Master has immense psychic powers. What about you? What can your Master, can do such miracles?"
Lin Chi asked, "What miracles did your master?"
That disciple replied: "One day he told me to go across the river and be still, with a sheet of paper in his hand. The river was wide, nearly a mile wide. I I stood with the paper in his hand, and he began to write with a pen where he was caught ... and writing my paper. I saw with my own eyes, I am a witness! What you can do your Master? ".
Lin Chi said," When hungry, eat, sleep when he is sleeping. "
The other said:" What do you say? And call them miracles? All those things are. "
Lin Chi said," Nobody does. When you sleep, do a thousand things. When you eat, think a thousand things. When my teacher is sleeping, just sleeping, not roll over, not even dreams. At that moment there is only sleep, nothing else. And when he's hungry, eat. It is always present at the time. "
What sense does it write a pen from a bank of the river to the other? It's silly. Only fools will be interested in such things. What sense can never have?
Someone went to Ramakrishna and said, "My teacher is great: you can walk on water."
Ramakrishna said: "What nonsense! I can go to a ferryman, and he takes me for a few pounds on the other side. Your Teacher is a fool. Go, and let them understand that it should not waste his life. That means that it can be done with ease. "
But the mind yearns constantly. The mind is nothing but agony, wishing that something happens. Sometimes he thinks about money, how to have more, how to have a bigger house, or more respectable, more political power.
Then, when you turn to spirituality, the mind does not change: you now have more psychic powers - telepathy, clairvoyance, and many other absurdities. The mind remains the same: he wants more! It's the same game that goes on ... Now it
telepathy or clairvoyance, or psychic powers: "If you can do these things, I can do better ... I can read the thoughts of people, thousands of miles away. "
Life itself is a miracle, but the ego is not ready to accept it. He wants to do something special, something no one else does, that nobody is able to do something truly extraordinary ...
(Osho)