Sufism is good, but end up with Zen

Osho told Coleman Barks that Rumi poems could become Ecstatic Self-Hypnosis

Sufism is good, but end up with Zen.

Friday For a dervish every day feels like Friday, the beginning of a holiday, a fresh setting out that will not find an end. Dressed in the soul's handsomeness you are a whole month of Fridays I sweet outside, sweet in. Your mind and your deep being walk together as friends walk along inside their friendship. Debris does not stay in place on a fast-moving creek. Let grudges wash out into the sea. Your soul's eye watches a spring-green branch moving, while these other eyes love the old stories. Page 173 The Big Red Book Rumi Coleman Barks MAYU BAOCHE MAYU BAOCHE (n.d.] of Puzhou was a famous disciple of Mazu. There is no record of his home province, his surname, or the exact dates of his birth and death. He was a close friend of the famous Zen adept Danxia Tianran. The lamp records provide the following account of Baoche's enlightenment: Once, while walking with Mazu, Manu asked, "What is the great nirvana?" Manu replied, "Hurried." ~' Manu asked, "What is it that's hurried?" Mazu said, "See the water!" At these words Manu was awakened.