Life's riddles
Sometimes in life we are at cross roads, we need to make decisions; Often these decisions, once made alter our course of life. How do we react to these changes? Should we grieve at the loss? Should we feel elated and become arrogant? Should we sulk and be angry at others? Or should we choose to be happy and go ahead in life?
Yes we do not have a choice about the situations we get into, but thankfully we all have choice as to how we react to it: whether we choose to be happy or sad is really on us.
Its all in mind, whether we are happy or sad..we make the heaven or hell right here on earth. Until we realize this there can be no peace. Life is really a celebration.. an eternal festival of various colours, of different living and non living things, of different feelings, of different people, of different countries, of different moods and in the end of creator himself(or herself!!) .
I read this story long time back somewhere(Iam really bad at remembering the sources!) which really demonstrates how profound meaning can be found even in apparently small things in life!.
This little anecdote is about a japanese Zen master:
It was rainy season and the great master and his disciple were going to another monastry. It rained a lot on that day and as they approached a stream they saw this beautiful young woman struggling to keep her dress from getting dirty and staring at the dirty stream. She apparently didnt want her dress to get dirty but wanted to cross the stream.
The master stops and asks her if he could carry her across the stream...On hearing this, the disciple is red faced. How could a monk like his master touch a beautiful woman and carry her in his arms?? But he didn't say a word. The master carried the woman across the stream and left her there and went with his disciple on his way to manastry.
As they walked, the disciple grew restless. Still he didnt utter a word. He thought... how could his master carry a beautiful woman. They reached the monastry in the evening and after having food went to bed. The disciple was deeply troubled. He couldn't sleep. At midnight, he could no longer control his restlessness and barged into his masters room and asked him, "How could you carry that beautiful woman?"
To this the great zen master replied," I left her at the stream, are you still carrying her?"
Yes we do not have a choice about the situations we get into, but thankfully we all have choice as to how we react to it: whether we choose to be happy or sad is really on us.
Its all in mind, whether we are happy or sad..we make the heaven or hell right here on earth. Until we realize this there can be no peace. Life is really a celebration.. an eternal festival of various colours, of different living and non living things, of different feelings, of different people, of different countries, of different moods and in the end of creator himself(or herself!!) .
I read this story long time back somewhere(Iam really bad at remembering the sources!) which really demonstrates how profound meaning can be found even in apparently small things in life!.
This little anecdote is about a japanese Zen master:
It was rainy season and the great master and his disciple were going to another monastry. It rained a lot on that day and as they approached a stream they saw this beautiful young woman struggling to keep her dress from getting dirty and staring at the dirty stream. She apparently didnt want her dress to get dirty but wanted to cross the stream.
The master stops and asks her if he could carry her across the stream...On hearing this, the disciple is red faced. How could a monk like his master touch a beautiful woman and carry her in his arms?? But he didn't say a word. The master carried the woman across the stream and left her there and went with his disciple on his way to manastry.
As they walked, the disciple grew restless. Still he didnt utter a word. He thought... how could his master carry a beautiful woman. They reached the monastry in the evening and after having food went to bed. The disciple was deeply troubled. He couldn't sleep. At midnight, he could no longer control his restlessness and barged into his masters room and asked him, "How could you carry that beautiful woman?"
To this the great zen master replied," I left her at the stream, are you still carrying her?"
posted by atma_tripta at 4:58 PM
3 Comments:
Attachments and unanswered questions are hard to overcome. what does the Hindu philosophy have to say about that?
I will give you what I think about them..as I cannot claim to be completely in light either! :)
Regarding the attatchments...its more like ignorance that is considered the root of every attatchment. So, efface it and you have no attachments. As you will surely understand its much easier to say this than practice it!
And the unanswerd questions are answered in this way...its like knowing the clay and not the details of pots you can make out of them. We can make 100's of different forms from the same clay..The philosophy claims know the clay and you have known it all..details not neccessary. Watch out, I might write something about it soon..you got me thinking!!
I could not understand your point regarding ignorance and attachment.
But your point about clay is very clear. The question is, how easy is it to understand the nature of clay itself?
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