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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The Dream Contract



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THE DREAM CONTRACT


Nasruddin was fast asleep at nine in the morning.
The sun was in the sky, the birds were singing in the trees and his breakfast was getting cold.
So his wife decided to wake him.
He woke up in a rage.
"Why did you wake me up just now?" he yelled.
"The sun has risen in the sky," said she,
"the birds are singing in the trees and your breakfast is getting cold."
"Breakfast be damned," he said,
"I was about to sign a contract worth a million grammes of gold!"
With that he closed his eyes to recapture his shattered dream and those million grammes of gold.


Now Nasruddin was cheating in that contract and his business partner was a tyrant.
If, on recapturing the dream, he stops his cheating, he will become a saint.
If he struggles to free the people from the oppression of the tyrant he will be a freedom fighter.
If, in the middle of it all,
he suddenly realizes he is dreaming,
he will become Awakened. Enlightened.


What kind of saint or freedom fighter are you if you are still asleep?


THE SONG OF THE BIRD
Anthony de Mello