침묵과 수용 ６부 중 １부

There is a story. Moses was supposed to be the Master later on. So, before He led the people from the land of Egypt, He was apprenticed to a great Master. […] Now, so the Master imposed the discipline of silence upon Moses’ apprenticeship. So the Master probably accepted Moses as His disciple, and probably the Master had seen that He is a potential Master for the future. So, He took very great pain to cultivate Moses and to discipline Him into a good Master, good leader for the future. But nevertheless, as you know, to teach anybody is very easy, but to make him believe, understand, and uphold your teaching is very difficult. It’s OK, you can teach, but whether he listens or not, that’s another matter. And that matter is very important, crucial, and very, very difficult. […] 

Once I stayed in the desert, not 40 days, but perhaps 14 days. I didn’t do anything there. I just cooked and then washed my clothes and went to fetch water and go shopping. But it was very good, better than when I’m on retreat with you. When I’m on retreat with you, I work only. I work pretty hard. And when I am alone in the desert, even if I don’t meditate, I feel like a Buddha. But I did meditate, of course. How can you run away from meditation, right? You can never leave the meditation now, no more. It becomes like food for the soul. As soon as we stop meditating, even just for a few days, we feel different. Everything, just like everything goes down, our energies, and everything goes down. Our intelligence goes down. Our life’s blood goes down, but blood pressure goes up. And the temperament goes up as well. […]