You want Do you want to learn the secret to making vital decisions?
How to react to insult and criticism directed at you? How to act so that you don't regret your words or actions later? This is what Bhagavan Sri Rajneesh - Osho tells in his book "The Path of the Mystic".
The answer to all these questions is – 24 hours.
When Gurdjieff was only 9 years old, his father died. The father was poor. On his deathbed, Gurdjieff called out to him and said:
- I have nothing to leave you as an inheritance. I am poor and my father was also poor, but he gave me one thing that made me the richest man in the world, even though I remained poor on the outside. I can pass this thing on to you. See also: Stop feeling bad for feeling bad
This is advice.
Maybe you're too young to follow it right now, but remember it. When you can act on this advice, act. The advice is simple. I will repeat it, and as I die, listen attentively, repeat after me, that I may go away satisfied that I have given you a message which perhaps for centuries has passed from father to son.
You took a last breath, then continued: – If someone insults you, annoys you, provokes you, just tell them: “I understood your message, but I promised my father that I would always respond 24 hours later. I understand that you are angry. I will come and answer you in 24 hours."
So, apply the 24 hour delay to everything.
The nine-year-old boy repeated his father's advice exactly - word for word and his father closed his eyes, but the message conveyed at that moment was imprinted in his mind forever. When it repeated the words exactly, the father mumbled for the last time:
- Good. May my blessing be with you. Now I can die in peace.
And he gave up his spirit to God. Gurdjieff, although he was only 9 years old, began to practice the father's covenant. If someone insulted him, he responded like this:
- I will come and answer you in 24 hours, because that is what I promised my father
before he died. I can't answer you right now. Sometimes, when someone beat him, he would say:
- You can hit me - right now I can't hit you back. In 24 hours I will come and answer you because that is what I promised my father on his deathbed. Later, years later, he told his students:
– This simple message transformed me completely.
The guy was hitting me, but I couldn't hit back at the same time. I had no choice but to observe. Now they were beating me, and I was supposed to be a mere spectator! I couldn't do anything for the next 24 hours.
Watching the man beating me created a new kind of crystallization in me. During those 24 hours I could see more clearly. My eyes were full of anger at first. If I had retaliated at the same moment, I would have had to fight this man, hit him - and all this would have been an unconscious reaction. Read more: When you are angry or bitter, even when you are right, you are punishing yourself
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But after 24 hours I could think about what happened much more calmly, more quietly.
The person was either right—meaning I had done something wrong and deserved to be beaten and insulted—or he was absolutely wrong. If he was right, I had no choice but to go back to him and thank him. If he was absolutely wrong... then there's no point in fighting someone who's so stupid and doing completely wrong things. It's pointless, just a waste of time. He doesn't deserve an answer.
And after 24 hours everything fell into place.
Clarity was coming. With this clarity and perceptiveness of the moment, Gurdjieff became one of the most unique beings of that century. And this was the foundation of crystallization of his whole being. A collection of guided meditations! Check it out here!
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