Andaka was asked:
— Understanding and kindness are part of the Sufi Path; why should there be anything else there other than love and beauty; Why, for example, should there be knowledge and the passage of time? And things like doubts and comments?
He replied:
— To ripen a peach, sun and water are needed. Have you seen what happens when the blessed sun shines too long or too strong? It becomes a devastating disaster. Water the plant correctly, and the water will be a true benefit for it. Water it too often, and the plant will inevitably begin to rot and experience severe pain, which will cause it to consider water not a blessing, but an instrument of destruction.
Give a person continually what he calls kindness, and you will exhaust him so much that he will become unhappy. Fail to make a timely remark when such criticism could have a corresponding impact on him, and you were mistaken.
Refuse to support these positions as possible, and you will not actually ask the questions you think you have asked.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru