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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Very good lesson! Please let us follow this advice and have a stress free good life!!
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A group of old university students, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer 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".
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." "Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
So don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead
Monday, May 28, 2007
One day the Mullah was crying and crying. When his neighbors asked him why he said, “I lost my key. I looked everywhere and I cannot find it”. He had all his neighbors searching his yard to find the key. Finally a great Sufi came by and asked him where he last saw the key. He replied “Inside the house”. When asked why are you looking outside for what is inside, the Moula replied “Are you crazy? I can’t go inside until I find the key.”
It is not an easy task to find that key that is inside each of us. Unfortunately looking outside ourselves in workshops, lectures or self-help books is not going to be the answer. These outside sources may be helpful only if they point us back within. We must learn to go within to experience our true selves.
Monday, May 28, 2007
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A western man came to a Sufi Master to learn, as he heard about him from others that he is an enlightened soul. When the searcher entered to his house, he saw that an old Sufi was sitting on the corner, alone.
He was shocked and asked the Sufi: ` I heard that you are a famous
Sufi and here you are simply sitting without any furniture even a bed, how is it possible?'
Sufi master laughed and asked him: 'Where is your furniture?'
He said: ` I am a tourist and no tourist carry his furniture with him.'
Sufi master looked in to his eyes and replied:`I too a tourist, just a tourist and tourist never carry any furniture with him.'
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Monday, May 28, 2007
Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his journal writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer he called out, "Good morning! What are you doing?"
The young man paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean."
"I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?"
"The sun is up, and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die."
"But, young man, don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach, and starfish all along it. You can't possibly make a difference!"
The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said, "It made a difference for that one."
There is something very special in each and every one of us. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. And if we can become aware of that gift, we gain through the strength of our visions the power to shape the future. We must each find our starfish. And if we throw our stars wisely and well, the world will be blessed.
Monday, May 28, 2007
A man and a nail had a conversation.
The nail said: "I have often wondered during my years sticking here in this panel, what my fate is to be."
The man said: "Latent in your situation may be a tearing out with pliers, a burning of wood, the rotting of the plank -- so many things."
Said the nail: "I should have known better than to ask such foolish questions! Nobody can foresee the future, let alone a variety of them, all so unlikely."
So the nail waited, until someone else came along, someone who would talk intelligently, and not threaten him.
So do we really want to know our fate, or even our present situation?
 nailham
Monday, May 28, 2007
A scholar asked a boatman to row him across the river. The journey was long and slow. The scholar was bored. "Boatman," he called out, "Let's have a conversation." Suggesting a topic of special interest to himself, he asked, "Have you ever studied phonetics or grammar?"
"No," said the boatman, "I've no use for those tools."
"Too bad," said the scholar, "You've wasted half your life. It's useful to know the rules."
Later, as the rickety boat crashed into a rock in the middle of the river, the boatman turned to the scholar and said, "Pardon my humble mind that to you must seem dim, but, wise man, tell me, have you ever learned to swim?"
"No," said the scholar, "I've never learned. I've immersed myself in thinking."
"In that case," said the boatman, "you've wasted all your life. Alas, the boat is sinking."
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