The worst things are the best things in Life..
Here's why-
The new-comers at the meditation class introduced themselves and gave reasons what brings them to start to meditate.
The replies were-
"Because I lost my job and am idle", "Because I am under acute depression", "Because I am new to Hong Kong and feel lonely"
This refreshed the incident that our meditation teacher- Mr. Goenka mentioned about his per-meditation life wherein upon being asked why he wants to enter into the path of meditation, he replied- "Because I am suffering from migraine".
To which his teacher replied- "Why does one put up a sugar factory? To obtain sugar or molasses?"
Solving issues like depression/ loneliness/ sadness are the by-products. The ultimate goal is Dhamma.
It is interesting to see how beautiful the way of Life is- to push you towards wrongful passages so that you discover your righteous paths and carve out your own personal journeys...
Here's why-
The new-comers at the meditation class introduced themselves and gave reasons what brings them to start to meditate.
The replies were-
"Because I lost my job and am idle", "Because I am under acute depression", "Because I am new to Hong Kong and feel lonely"
Mr. Goenka
This refreshed the incident that our meditation teacher- Mr. Goenka mentioned about his per-meditation life wherein upon being asked why he wants to enter into the path of meditation, he replied- "Because I am suffering from migraine".
To which his teacher replied- "Why does one put up a sugar factory? To obtain sugar or molasses?"
Solving issues like depression/ loneliness/ sadness are the by-products. The ultimate goal is Dhamma.
It is interesting to see how beautiful the way of Life is- to push you towards wrongful passages so that you discover your righteous paths and carve out your own personal journeys...
……..But whenever failure comes, if we analyse it critically, in ninety-nine per cent of cases we shall find that it was because we did not pay attention to the means. Proper attention to the finishing, strengthening, of the means is what we need. With the means all right, the end must come. We forget that it is the cause that produces the effect; the effect cannot come by itself; and unless the causes are exact, proper, and powerful, the effect will not be produced. Once the ideal is chosen and the means determined, we may almost let go the ideal, because we are sure it will be there, when the means are perfected. When the cause is there, there is no more difficulty about the effect, the effect is bound to come. If we take care of the cause, the effect will take care of itself. The realization of the ideal is the effect. The means are the cause: attention to the means, therefore, is the great secret of life.
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If we examine our own lives, we find that the greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it — perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that it is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still, we cannot tear ourselves away from it.
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Had it not been for this, life would have been all sunshine. Never mind! With all its failures and successes, with all its joys and sorrows, it can be one succession of sunshine, if only we are not caught.
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- Swami Vivekananda
[Work and its Secret]
( Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1900 )
What is Dhamma?
ReplyDeleteTo Maintain Purity of Life is Dhamma
To Reach Perfection in Life is Dhamma
To Live in Nibbana is Dhamma
To Give up Craving is Dhamma
To believe that all compound things are impermanent is Dhamma
To believe that Karma is the instrument of Moral Order is Dhamma
~B. R. Ambedkar