The book of Mirdad

This is a classical spiritual literature. This is the book. I am extremely selective in reading books. So, selective that I almost don't read any book. I would have read the least number of books as compared to others, in general. Because I believe in bad books. All books are not good as it appears. And ever I cared is only about the truth which books do not contain. Books contain information about the truth, not the truth. When you r hungry, food is the only way. I love books lying on the shelf rather than reading them. And it so happened when other day I picked "the book of mirdad". After a long time I started reading a classical spiritual text. The book really has something in it. Although millions have tried to measure the depth of ocean but very few have succeeded in true sense. Mirdad is one of them. A rare piece. It was like Ashtavakra Geeta. Do give it a shot. It will be more insightful than tonnes of bestsellers. It may not make you more knowledgeable about certain subject matter, but it will open a new dimension of life in you (provided you are open, a closed pot cannot be filled). And that's what your holy teachers have done to you unknowingly. When Jesus says, "god forgive them coz they don't know what they r doing" - is of tremendous value. Your teacher, your politician, your parents didn't know what they were doing to you. And you will repeat the same nonsense to your kids in a little different manner subjected to the society. If u look at the humanity, it is doing same nonsense starting from day 1. Man has not changed at all. Means have changed, environment is changed, time has changed. But man is utterly same. Doing, but no idea of doings. Just following a race. Since everybody else is racing so I am racing. And that everybody thinks. Everybody is fooling everybody else.

This world would have been full of natural gardens, full of contented and cheerful people living in their totality. Buddhas would have been your neighbours. Unless each and every person on the earth will become lile Buddha the problems of this world will not be solved no matter what you do. This is my word I say onto you that Buddha knew it. We need 1000 Buddhas operating at a time and the fate of human race can be changed forever.

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Contradictions

Our holy teachers taught us that contradictions are not good. We should avoid contradictions. Contrarily, I find contradictions very beautiful when analyzed carefully. Often contradictions turns out to be complementary. First of all, what is required is a clear mind free from illusions which just see the reality as it is. But how do you know what is an illusion and what is not an illusion? Now this is a million $ question. There are two separate distinct school of thoughts at this point. The thought of eastern civilization originated mostly from India - "This is unreal, that is real." And the thought of west - "This is real, that is unreal." This is where east and west contradictions in proposing the reality.

I feel that these school of thought should be merged to - "This is real, that is real" - Even unreal is real. We cannot simply deny the unreal. Since unreal is the part of this very existence, it should be merged to real. So, everything is real as far as understanding is concerned. Then east and west are in consensus at this point - the convergence of reality.

Now coming to practical aspect of my life. I have not cared for good and bad. I simply live experimentally. Experience can be good and bad with which I am not concerned. But, I am concerned with the experience. I simply don't believe in just living a consistent "so called" good life. I hate the word - "consistent". Really really hate this word - consistent. But if it happens on it's own, naturally, it's okay. Then it's perfectly okay. Anything which happens naturally, be it consistent, inconsistent, good, bad, is good. However, the life in general remains mysterious and inconsistent. As a student I have received, both good and bad feedback. One teacher told me you are a very intelligent student. Never seen an intelligent hard working like you. The other teacher told me you are a fool. The deviation of complements received in my life varies too much. Even in professional life I received both very good performer and then average performer. Have you ever think on "average". This is such a beautiful word. I will write about average sometime later. Meanwhile keep thinking on - "law of average" :)

The garden and the forest

That day while driving I saw a garden. The gardener was chopping off the leaves giving them a shape. Now this is very cruel activity. There were rows of small plants each of same height and size. What will happen if they are allowed to grow on their own? Just like it happens in the forest. Why to chop-off their leaves?? There is a life in those leaves. Those leaves are supposed to live then dry and fell down later. The beauty of garden looks very artificial. Whereas the forest, where plants, trees are naturally allowed to grow looks very natural. No effort is put in the making of a forest. It is created spontaneously. No gardener ever created a forest, but it exists. The forest is created by itself. The garden is created by gardener. A person. With a chopper in hand. I don't enjoy sitting in a garden much. I love anything which has happened spontaneously naturally - the forest. But, there is a danger in the forest from animals. That is where you will feel life. In a garden there is no danger - no lion, no snakes, no insects, so you won't feel the life. Because, everything is known in a garden - that you are safe from lion, snakes. But that's not the case in a forest. In a forest you have to be careful from Snakes, insects and so many other things. There are just too many unknown factor in a forest. So, it becomes a mystery. And life is a mystery. As long as mystery is maintained - life exists. The moment mystery is resolved life becomes boredom. And once it becomes boredom, you have to drag it. And I really think that whole humanity is simply dragging the life hoping for a better tomorrow. And "that tomorrow" never comes. Because, it never came ever. So, keep the mystery alive and live spontaneously. Don't worry, no one will ever know the mystery of life. It's not a problem if we don't know the mystery of life. That's what life's very nature is.

Nature

It doesn't matter whether i am good or not, what matter is whether u r
good or not. Buddha was a good person, perhaps the best ever, but it
didn't matter much to the humanity. Humanity is doong same shit
irrespective of buddha. Because humanity is a big thing. 6 billion.
And buddha knew it. I am not in favour of imdividual enlightenment.
However i believe that if something has never happened in the history
it will never happen in the future. Commumal enlightenment has never
happen in the history of human civilization. So it will never happen
in the future.
There r just too many ppl on the earth. And every body has his/her
prejudices. This situation may be the demand of existence itself.
Because natute always exist in its completeness. The sun is created.
Now nothing can be done about it. Every morning the sun rises in the
east and this event is complete. There is no scope of improvement in
it. That is the reasom i do not favour development. I favour
existence. Not the development. I support to be an observer not a
developer. U need to be a very careful observer of the nature. Just
watch the nature around you. You can see the existence is manifested
in a very beautiful manner. Watch the dawn - the first ray of the sun.
The song of birds. The sound of the river at night. The forest. Random
trees. The fragrance of the flower. See how plant sucks the soil from
it's roots and spread the fragrance in the atmosphere. Isn't it a
miracle. It is. It is a great miracle. The soil has no fragrance.
Flower has fragrance. But flower will not exist without soil. Look at
the survival extinct of the flower. The whole of existence must have
supported the flower to spread the fragrance. It is a miracle.
Impossible has become possible. Normally we dont realize it because we
take things for granted. The is the message of existence. Undetstand
the nature. Behave naturally. I have never lived life like a
pretender. I dont know how to pretend. When i feel happy i am happy.
When i dont feel happy, i am not happy. That is as simple as this. Due
to my this attitude i am treated little differently among my friends.
I have never followed crowed, being in crowd. My whole life is
experimental. I want to taste both good and bad. I am good. I am bad.
I am.

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Buddha's sleep

Anand lived with buddha for many years, for years he slept near
buddha. One morning he asked buddha, "for years i have been watching
you sleep. Not once do you ever change sides; you sleep the whole
night in the same position. Your limbs stay where they were when you
laid down at night; there is not even slightest movement. Many times i
have got up at night to check whether you have moved. I have stayed up
nights watching you - your hands, your feet, rest in the same
position; you never ever change sides. Do you keep some kind of a
record of your sleep the whole night?"
"I dont need to keep records," Buddha replied. I sleep in a conscious
state, so i find no need to change sides. I can if i want to. "

Lesson - we should be aware of even our sleep. Means be always aware.

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A man in the paradise

Once a man was traveling, accidentally he entered paradise. In the Indian concept of paradise there are wish-fulling trees there Kalptarus. You just sit underneath them, desire anything and immediately it is fulfilled - there is no gap between the desire and it's fulfillment. There is no gap between a thought and a thing. You think and immediately it becomes thing; the thought materializes automatically.

The man was tired, so he fell asleep under a Kalptaru, a wish-fulling tree. When he woke-up he was feeling very hungry, so he simply said, "I'm feeling so hungry. wish I could get some food from somewhere." And immediately food appeared out of no where - just floating in the air, delicious food.

He was so hungry that he didn't pay attention to where it had come from - when you are hungry you are not philosophic. He immediately started eating, and the food was so delicious that he was caught up in the food. Once his hunger was gone. He looked around. Now that he was feeling very satisfied another thought arose in him. "If I could get some drink..." -- and there is still no prohibition in the paradise. Immediately precious wine appeared.

Drinking the wine relaxedly in the cool breeze of paradise under the shade of the tree, he started wondering, "What is the matter? What is happening? Have I fallen into a dream, or are some ghosts around and playing tricks with me?" And Lo - ghost appeared, ferocious ghosts, horrible, nauseating. Then he started trembling, and a thought arose in him: "Now I am sure to be killed. the people are going to kill me."

He was killed.

The socks

A merchant went to a farmer to get a pound of butter. The farmer insisted on swapping the butter for a pair of wollen socks. When the merchant reported this to his wife, she said - i'll unravel some wool from our bedspread and knit him pair of socks. When it was finished a pair socks was exchanged for a pound of butter.
When the merchant needed more butter, his wife again unravelled more of the bedspread and knit more socks, which were exchanged for butter. Finally she had enough wool for one sock. The merchant took the sock to farmer and asked for half pound of butter for it.
"Nothing doing", replied the farmer. "I'll give you a full pound of butter. You see, I really dont wear socks. My wife unravels the wool and uses it for knitting a bedspread, and there's just enough in this one sock to finish it. "

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