Faith can move mountains

A Master has a quality. When you are really the master, you have become a watcher and become the master. And it is such a simple thing that you just say something and it happens. You just say to the mind, ‘Enough – now you be the servant, because you are the servant.’

And, I say, it is just that simple.

You are afraid: that is why it cannot happen. You know that it will not happen. Then you can say something and it will not happen. But it is not happening because you knew it would not happen. Otherwise it will happen.

You have not treated the mind really as a servant. Otherwise, you simply say, ‘Sit down,’ or you simply say, ‘Listen’ – and the mind listens.

Vivekananda was in America. He talked one morning and he told a story, and he emphasized the fact that faith can move mountains. One old woman who was worried by a mountain very much said: ‘This is good! I never tried it.’

Just behind her house there was a big mountain. And because of the mountain the sun would not come to her house. Because of the mountain, air would not reach. Her house became very stuffy.

So she said, ‘This is simple. Now I will go and I will have faith.’

She went immediately to her house. She opened the window and looked at the mountain for the last time – because now it would disappear. There would be no chance again to see it. She closed the window, closed her eyes, and said, ‘I have faith. Now move.’ Thrice she said it, because she thought maybe once it may not work.

Then she opened the window. The mountain was still there. She started laughing and said, ‘I already knew it was not going to happen.’

If you know all the way, then it will not happen – because you have not fulfilled the condition.

I also say that faith can move mountains – but faith, remember!

Osho, The True Sage: Talks on Hassidism, CH 4, Q 6

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