Truth is not a tradition. It cannot be, because truth is never old. It is eter nally new, it is eternally fresh, as fresh as the dewdrops in the mor ning or the stars in the night.
The claim of tradition is basically anti-truth. The word ‘tradition’ comes from a root ‘tradere’. It
means ‘handed by someone to somebody else, transferred’. From ‘tradere’ also comes the word
‘trade’. Tr uth cannot be transferred from one person to another person. It is impossible to transfer it. It is not a thing, hence it is not transferable. It cannot be traded, nobody can give it, nobody can take it. It ar ises in each individual’s own being, it is a flowering of your own heart.A Sufi need not be a Mohammedan. A Sufi can exist anywhere, in any form – because Sufism is the essential core of all religions. It has nothing to do with Islam in particular. Sufism can exist without Islam; Islam cannot exist without Sufism. Without Sufism, Islam is a corpse. Only with Sufism does it become alive.
Whenever a religion is alive it is because of Sufism. Sufism simply means a love affair with God, with the ultimate, a love affair with the whole. It means that one is ready to dissolve into the whole, that
one is ready to invite the whole to come into one’s hear t. It knows no for mality. It is not confined by any dogma, doctr ine, creed or church. Christ is a Sufi, so is Mohammed. Krishna is a Sufi, so is Buddha. This is the first thing I would like you to remember : that Sufism is the inner most core – as Zen is, as Hassidism is. These are only different names of the same ultimate relationship with God.
The claim of tradition is basically anti-truth. The word ‘tradition’ comes from a root ‘tradere’. It
means ‘handed by someone to somebody else, transferred’. From ‘tradere’ also comes the word
‘trade’. Tr uth cannot be transferred from one person to another person. It is impossible to transfer it. It is not a thing, hence it is not transferable. It cannot be traded, nobody can give it, nobody can take it. It ar ises in each individual’s own being, it is a flowering of your own heart.A Sufi need not be a Mohammedan. A Sufi can exist anywhere, in any form – because Sufism is the essential core of all religions. It has nothing to do with Islam in particular. Sufism can exist without Islam; Islam cannot exist without Sufism. Without Sufism, Islam is a corpse. Only with Sufism does it become alive.
Whenever a religion is alive it is because of Sufism. Sufism simply means a love affair with God, with the ultimate, a love affair with the whole. It means that one is ready to dissolve into the whole, that
one is ready to invite the whole to come into one’s hear t. It knows no for mality. It is not confined by any dogma, doctr ine, creed or church. Christ is a Sufi, so is Mohammed. Krishna is a Sufi, so is Buddha. This is the first thing I would like you to remember : that Sufism is the inner most core – as Zen is, as Hassidism is. These are only different names of the same ultimate relationship with God.
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