Saturday, February 2, 2013

To Enter The Door - 1

The Door or Gate is my favourite symbol. I think, each of us has some idea about this Door and where it conducts. And we also have the idea about a way to enter. Anyway we search.
Because we can only enter the Gate using our own, individual path. Here some stories about it.
First is a parable "Before the Law"contained in the novel "The Trial", by Franz Kafka.

A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to the law through a doorway. The doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. The man asks if he can ever go through, and the doorkeeper says that it is possible. The man waits by the door for years, bribing the doorkeeper with everything he has. The doorkeeper accepts the bribes, but tells the man that he accepts them "so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." The man did not attempt to murder or hurt the doorkeeper to gain the law, but waits at the door until he is about to die. Right before his death, he asks the doorkeeper why even though everyone seeks the law, no one else has come in all the years. The doorkeeper answers "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it".

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