Awareness is a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness! An alert cognitive state! Ideally, we all should be always in this state! But reality is different. Most of us take years to come to this state! It might be a consistent quest leading to this elevated position or pure accidental finding – when we are …
Once upon a time there was a stonecutter. Each day he went up to the mountains to cut stones. And while he worked he sang for, though he was a poor man, he desired no more than he had, so he had not a care in the world. One day he was called to work …
A man grew up with the decision that he would be satisfied with nothing but the very best. This decision helped him to become very successful and very rich, so he now had the means with which to provide himself with nothing but the best. Now it so happened that he was suffering from a …
It is said that when the Great Library of Alexandria was burnt down, only one book survived. It was a very ordinary book, dull and uninteresting so it was sold for a few pennies to a poor man who barely knew how to read. Now that book, dull and uninteresting as it seemed, was probably …
A teacher learnt to become a wise and compassionate educator the hard way, by making many mistakes. Here is one of them: He was Principal of a school when a lad came to say he wanted to leave for another school. "Why, son? What’s wrong? What makes you unhappy? Your marks are good." "Nothing’s wrong, …
A blind man happened to be visiting a friend and since it was late, was offered a lantern to take home with him. He laughed at the suggestion. "Day and night are all the same to me", he said. "What would I do with a lantern?" His friend said, "You do not need it to …
Several centuries ago, several monks were in a cave in a jungle somewhere, meditating on unconditional love. There was the head monk, his brother and his best friend. The fourth was the head monk’s enemy: they just could not get along. The fifth monk in the group was a very old monk, so advanced …
