May 2023
TEACHING STORY
THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS
There once was a great rishi who was always happy. One day, a vain and selfish young man came to visit him. After talking for a few minutes, the young man rudely asked, “Are you truly happy, or are you just pretending to be happy?”
The rishi chose not to answer that question. Instead, he said, “My young friend, I could not help but notice the lines on your hand. I am very sorry to tell you that your lifeline is extremely short; in fact, in seven days you will die.”
The young man’s heart was filled with terror. “In seven days, I will die?” he slowly repeated in disbelief. Then he quickly excused himself and hurried out of the door. With the picture of death firmly fixed in his mind, he approached each person he had ever mistreated and asked for forgiveness. Later that evening, he took his wife’s hand, and with tears in his eyes, he told her he was sorry for not being a better husband; then he sat on the floor and began playing with his children. For six days, he spent his time helping his friends and family and feeling grateful for all the love he had been given. On the seventh day, the day he was supposed to die, he remained in bed, thinking of God and his impending death.
Suddenly, he heard someone walk into the room. He saw the rishi standing by his bed. The rishi touched his face and told him to get up. Then he smiled and said, “Young man, today is not the day you are going to die.”
He then asked, “My friend, during the past seven days, did you become angry with anyone?”
The young man answered, “No, my heart was filled with love.”
“Did you become annoyed with your wife and children?”
“Every moment with them was filled with joy. When I thought I had only a short time to live, how could I think of myself or be angry and upset with anybody?”
The rishi said, “So, now you know why I am so happy.
THIS, I KNOW
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ • Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.
• We miss the real by lack of attention and create the unreal by an excess of imagination. • Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world but refuse to have them in yourself.
• Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.
• To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.
• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
• The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know; you are the knower.
Banyan Tree 65
INSPIRATION
THE INVITATION
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your
own life from its presence.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer
ONE-MINUTE WISDOM IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP Buddha’s cousin Ananda once said to Buddha, “I think friendship (Maitreyi) is half the spiritual path. It is so important to our journey.”
Buddha replied, “You are incorrect Ananda. Friendship is not half the path—it’s the whole thing. Good friends and mentors are so important to our healing, growth, and awakening. They influence how we think, how we behave, and how we show up in the world.”
QUOTE
“It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.” —Neem Karoli Baba
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Wife: I’m going shopping; do you need anything?
Husband: I’m looking for inner peace and happiness, an answer to my doubts, a sense of fulfilment, a medium through which I can transcend consciousness and reach true spirituality, calmness and...
Wife: Be specific; Smirnoff or Absolute?
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