Bayazid
804-874    70 years
aka: Bayazid Bastami,
Persian: بايزيد بسطامى

Sufi mystic from Persia (Iran)

influential early Sufi

died and buried in Iran, but there is also a shrine
memorial in Bangladesh
complex with
Bayazid's tomb in Iran
                oshobob  The Living Workshop                                         
                                            People in Osho's Talks
I remember a story about a Sufi mystic, Bayazid,
who remained in one village for many years. One
day the villagers said to Bayazid, "We have been
seeing you and hearing you for at least five years.
You were always praying and talking to God. Now we
see that you never talk, you never pray. Why this
change? Have you become an atheist? Have you
lost your belief in the divine? You never talk now,
you never pray."

Bayazid laughed and said, "Before, I was talking and
praying. Now God has started talking to me, so I
have to be silent and listen. The whole process has
changed. Now I need not talk. Now, he talks to me."

                                            --Osho
                                The Voice of Silence, ch. 12
There was a Sufi saint, Bayazid, and he always
used to say: 'God knows whatsoever my need is, so
I have never prayed--because that is foolish! What
to say to Him? He already knows. If I say something
which He knows, it is foolish...'

                                                      --Osho
                                              Until You Die, ch. 1