Now a hidden voice, coming from the desert itself, whisppered,
すると、その時、砂の中から次のような囁き声が聞こえてきた。
"The wind crosses the desert, and so can the stream."
「風は砂漠を渡っていける」
The stream objected that it was dashing itself against the sand, and only getting absorbed ; that the wind could fly and this was why it could cross a desert.
"By hurtling in your own accustomed way you cannot get across. You will either disappear or become a marsh. You must allow the wind to carry you over to your destination."
"The wind," said the sand, "performs this function, it takes up water, carries it over the desert, and then lets it fall again. Falling as rain, the water again becomes a river."
"It is so, and if you do not believe it, you cannot become more than a quagmire, and even that could take many, many years ; and it certainly is not the same as a stream."
"But can I not remain the same stream that I am today?"
「今のままの小川であり続けることはできないのか?」
"You cannot in either case remain so," the wisper said. "Your essential part is carried away and forms a stream again. You are called what you are even today because you do not know which part of you is the essential one."
And the stream raised his vapor into the welcoming arms of the wind, which gently and easily bore it upwards and along, letting it fall softly as soon as they reached the roof of a mountain, many, many miles away.
And because he had his doubts, the stream was able to remember and record more strongly in his mind the details of the experience. He reflected, "yes, now I have learned my true identity"
And that is why it is said that the way in which the stream of life is to continue on its journey is written in the sands.
「砂の中には生命のたどる道が書かれている」 と言われるのは、このような理由からである。
****スーフィーの物語「Tales of the Dervishes」より****
親愛なる我が EX Boyfriend にプレゼントされたのが、 OSHOの講話録「The Wishdom of the Sands」でした。 冒頭にこのスーフィーの物語「砂の話」が書かれ、 その話からOSHOの講話が始まっていきます。 そのさわりの部分だけを以下に抜粋しました・・・
Sufizum does not shout. it only whispers. Naturally, only those who are ready to listen with sympathy -not only with sympathy, but empathy- only those who are ready to open their hearts in trust and in surrender can understand what sufism is. Only those who are capable of love can understand what sufism is. What is its message? It is not a logical analysis ; neither is it as illogical as zen. Sufism says to be logical is one extream, to be illogical is another. Sufism is just somewhere in the middle, neither logic nor illogic.