When required, think. If thinking happens without your awareness, it is compulsive and hence mechanical. Mechanical thinking is no thinking. To energise your thinking, keep your mind calm and empty. It is a known fact that many scientists think deeply on a subject, go to sleep and in the middle of the night often find answers mysteriously. Resting the mind energizes it. Waking up after a good restful sleep, you feel refreshed. Learn the art of being empty and in this emptiness when you start thinking, your thinking will have the power and vitality. Can you narrate a story to inspire us? In the house of a famous swordsman named Shoken, there lived a large rat that was fomenting trouble. The swordsman brought in a female cat to kill the rat. With pride, the cat arrived at the house of the swordsman. The cat went into the room and saw the rat. Surprisingly, the rat attacked the cat. Shamefully the cat had to leave the house without being able to catch the rat. The swordsman later invited a male cat since the female cat had failed in its attempt to catch the rat. In similar fashion as the female cat, the rat attacked the male cat. The male cat too left the room unsuccessfully. Puzzled by this turn of events, the cats called for a conference to discuss the matter. Amongst them, a wise old female cat volunteered to catch the rat. The swordsman was surprised to see the old cat. The old cat went into the room and saw the large rat. Both of them had an eye contact. The old cat approached the rat, took it in her mouth, and quietly left the room. The other cats asked the old cat to divulge the secret of her success. The old cat replied, ‘All of you have used techniques to catch the rat and the rat had better techniques to counter you. Whereas, I went with emptiness. When I was void, I had no form, no desire to attack. When one has no form and desire, then one is not a threat to an other. Then a great energy …. the divine energy flows through us. When there is ‘I,’ there is a form and one’s form is a threat to the other form. When there is no ‘I,’ there is no threat to the other, and hence no enmity. I allowed existence to decide who to catch whom? That was the secret of my success.’ The great swordsman bowed down to the old female cat and said, ‘You are speaking Zen. I have the theory and you have the practise.’ You mean to say that when there is no ‘I’ - the Ego, divine intelligence will flow? Yes. Our ego - the ‘I’ is like dust in the eyes. When there is dust in the eyes, the whole universe appears to be chaos. Ego is the dust in the eyes of consciousness. Be empty, surrender your ego and allow divine intelligence to flow. The old female cat was empty and allowed the cosmic intelligence to flow. In such a state of surrender either a rat or a cat would win. Such surrender requires great commitment. Allow this cosmic intelligence to flow through you. - swami sukhabodhanand
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:56:48 +0000
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