Food for Thought
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Want Learning
A hermit was meditating by a river when a young man interrupted him. "Master, I wish to become your disciple," said the man. "Why?" replied the hermit. The young man thought for a moment. "Because I want to find God."
The master jumped up, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, dragged him into the river, and plunged his head under water. After holding him there for a minute, with him kicking and struggling to free himself, the master finally pulled him up out of the river. The young man coughed up water and gasped to get his breath. When he eventually quieted down, the master spoke. "Tell me, what did you want most of all when you were under water."
"Air!" answered the man.
"Very well," said the master. "Go home and come back to me when you want God as much as you just wanted air."
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Help others to help yourself
Two people are lost in the desert. They are dying from hunger and thirst. Finally, they come to a high wall. On the other side they can hear the sound of a waterfall and birds singing. Above, they can see the branches of a lush tree extending over the top of the wall. Its fruit look delicious.
One of them manages to climb over the wall and disappears down the other side.
The other, instead, returns to the desert to help other lost travelers find their way to the oasis. -
Cup or Tea
Enjoy your tea
A group of alumni (graduate students), highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests tea, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of tea and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the tea.
All the students had a cup of tea in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the tea in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was tea, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...and then began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this:
"Life is the tea, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the tea God has provided us."God brews the tea, not the cups..........enjoy your tea.
"Happiness is the state of acceptance, Happiness doesn't come ONLY by winning or earning the things, but it exists where you satisfy yourself with the things you win"
~ Imm -
Self Governance
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de Montaigne
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Happyness in Life
The unit of measurement for success is 'Happiness' A Little Story
The businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna.
The businessman complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while. The businessman then asked why he didn't stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The businessman then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time? The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos; I have a full and busy life, señor. The businessman scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and I could help you".
You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats; eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would sell directly to the processor and eventually open your own cannery.
You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City where you would run your expanding enterprise." The Mexican fisherman asked, "But señor, how long will this all take?" To which the businessman replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then, señor?"The businessman laughed and said, "That's the best part! When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions."
"Millions, señor? Then what?"
The businessman said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, "Isn't that what I'm doing right now?"
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Pleasure and Pain
Is experiencing pleasure and pain (of the mind) a HOM or a perception rather conditioning of the mind?
According to me I think, though not sure, it is a bit of both because different people experience pleasure and pain according to different situations. Nevertheless to say, there are some others who have made it a habit!
what is pleasure for one could be a pain for another and vice veresa ....and the way we experience a particular feeling depends on the conditioning of our minds and i personally feel this is because of the ego in us that our minds refuse to accept anything which is found to be working against the so called 'I' factor.
Based on my learning and experiencing the tuning factor of the mind, i would say that it is we who choose our pleasure and pain. So why not try enjoying the so called 'pain' and see if we could try converting it into a pleasurable experience so that we could live with better frames of mind and be happy.
What say?
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MOdel
A parachute works only when open.
Solution to my weakness lies in my strength.
If anybody can do anything so can I.
I look for “model” in my surroundings to improve myself.
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Encouragement
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."
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Learn
"Anybody can learn anything -
Just not the same way; Just not the same day ! " -
Self Esteem
"There are no hands so small, that they cannot make a difference in the world"
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Education
"Education is nine tenths encouragement."
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Self Esteem
"What lies behind or before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us." -
Education
"The great aim of education is not knowledge
but action" Herbert Spencer -
Desire
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat”
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Learn
"I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I learn how to do it” Pablo Picaso -
Respect
If you lead through fear you will have little respect;
but if you lead through respect, you will have little to fear -
Creativity
Osho on creativity
If you want to know what dance is, don't go and see a dancer - learn dancing, be dancer. -
Possible
Even IMPOSSIBLE read I M Possible - submitted by Minakshi
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Stella and the stars
Story on sharing - How the stars came about
Stella is a small girl and all the stars in the world are in her bedroom ceiling. Every night they all come to see her and fill her room with light and beauty.
One day she her friends come home and they envy her room.
She steps outside and the moon is not smiling. Moon says it has no friends.
Stella thinks about it and decides to share her stars with everyone.
Now everyone is able to see the stars which stella shared, although stellas room itself has no stars.
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differences in opinion
If both of us have the same opinion, one of us is unnecessary!
Its not going to do me any good at all to communicate with someone else who sees the same thing, the same way. I don’t want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me. I want to communicate with you because you see it DIFFERENTLY.
I value the difference.
So when I become aware of the difference in our perceptions, I say, “Good! You see it differently! Help me see what you see”.
I say, "Because you see it differently, i have something to learn from you".
