*A SPLITTING HEADACHE*...
The proprietor of a coffee shop had been busy
all day. Being Saturday, it was very crowded & the customers were
just unending. He had been on his toes since morning. Towards the
evening he felt a splitting headache surfacing. As the clock ticked
away, his headache worsened. Unable to bear it, he stepped out of the
shop leaving his staff to look after the sales. He walked across the
street to the Chemist, to buy himself a painkiller to relieve his
headache. He swallowed the pill & felt relieved. He knew that in a
few minutes he would feel better. As he strolled out of the shop, he
casually asked the salesgirl, "Where is Mr Savarkar (the Chemist)? He's
not at the cash counter today!" The girl replied, "Sir, Mr Savarkar had a
splitting headache & said he was going across to the coffee shop.
He said a cup of hot coffee would relieve him of his headache."
The
man's mouth went dry & he mumbled, "Oh! I see." This is a typical
case of looking outside ourselves for something that we have within us.
How strange but true! The chemist relieves his headache by drinking
coffee & the coffee shop owner finds relief in a pain relieving
pill!
A man hunts across the lengths & breadths of the universe to
find peace.
Eventually he finds it in his heart & realizes that
peace is really a state of mind.
He undertakes many a pilgrimage to find
God.
Eventually he realizes that God is the in- dweller of the heart.
Life has its own ways of teaching us.....Amazing.
A blog created about the observations of the events in my life and around me. An attempt to portray the simplicity and complexities of the puzzle called LIFE. The title LIFE MUDRAS is chosen to depict the various aspects of life. MUDRA in Hindi also means a POSTURE. Some of the articles have been written by me, some received from friends and some of them picked up from the internet. There is no intent to infringe any copyrights.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Radical acceptance to our rescue
The idea that we can fix perceived
flaws in our partners, friends, parents, and grown children remains a promise
of something that is unobtainable.
A healthy dose of ego often
convinces us that our way of looking at things is right, but if we try to correct
someone else it usually backfires.
Most of the times it implies that we are more enlightened and that we have a deeper knowledge of what’s best. The other person may get the message that he or she isn’t good enough and will in every probability become resentful.
A safer approach would be to look
inward to fix the problem. This involves the recognition that you will never be
in sync about some matters.
We have to accept the
fact ‘We have this permanent difference, but we need to learn to live with each
other’.
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