Once there was a woodcutter who used to cut wood from forest and sell it in the market to earn his living. Every day he used to come across a sage meditating in the forest. He used to feel some kind of attraction towards that sage but sage never used to talk to any one.
One day he decided to take blessings from the Sage. So he went to the sage for his blessings. Sage just said "go deep into the forest" and closed his eyes in meditation. That day Woodcutter went deep inside the forest and to his surprise he found big sandal wood trees. That day he made lot of money enough for one week. Now he used to cut sandalwood only in a week.
After some days he felt I should go more deep inside the forest and to his surprise he found the silver mine just ahead of the place where he had stopped last time. Now he was very happy almost on the 7th heaven. He came back and thanked the Sage but sage repeated his words "go deep into the forest" and he went still further inside the forest.
To his surprise he found Gold mine there. For a while he thought it's a dream. Then he thought why not go still further.
So the Woodcutter went very deep inside the forest. Path was not easy and there was danger of wild animals also. But some voice was constantly asking him keep on moving inside the forest. At times he was scared also and wanted to turn back and enjoy the luxurious life by selling Gold.
Any other day he would have stopped and turn back but today some inner voice was pushing him towards the forest. At last he came across a diamond mines. He was literally shocked. It was too much. He sat under the tree and remembers his past. Few weeks ago he was a poor Woodcutter earning every day just enough to feed his family and today he is the richest person in the whole country.
Long time he sat under a tree and then he realized its all because of the blessings of that sage. And there must be some thing better than this Diamond mines that's why sage is not after these diamonds.
He came back and fell at the feet's of the sage and asked for his blessings again.
Sage took him up by arms and said "all the while I was waiting for you only. Now go deep inside your heart. You will come across many beautiful experiences; many spiritual powers will come to you. But don't stop there. Just keep on moving inside until you found yourself."
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Woodcutter and the mine of dreams.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Gift and Present.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
A Story.
One Zen monk, Bokuju, was passing through a street in a village. Somebody came and struck him with a stick. He fell down, and with him, the stick also. He got up and picked up the stick. The man who had hit him was running away. Bokuju ran after him, calling, "Wait, take your stick with you!"
He followed after him and gave him the stick. A crowd had gathered to see what was happening, and somebody asked Bokuju, "That man struck you hard, and you have not said anything!"
Bokuju is reported to have said, "A fact is a fact. He has hit, that's all. It happened that he was the hitter and I was the hit. It is just as if I am passing under a tree, or sitting under a tree, and a branch falls down. What will I do? What can I do?"
But the crowd said, "But a branch is a branch, this is a man. We cannot say anything to the branch, we cannot punish it. We cannot say to the tree that it is bad, because a tree is a tree, it has no mind."
Bokuju said, "This man to me is also just a branch. And if I cannot say anything to the tree, why should I bother to say anything to this man? It happened. I am not going to interpret what has happened. And it has already happened. Why get worried about it? It is finished, over."
This is the mind of a sage – not choosing, not asking, not saying this should be and this should not be. Whatsoever happens, he accepts it in its totality. This acceptance gives him freedom, this acceptance gives him the capacity to see. These are eye diseases: shoulds, should nots, divisions, judgments, condemnations, appreciations.
Source: from book "Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi" by Osho
Bhaaratha.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Last Chat of Nandan Mash
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| T.K. Nandakumar | |
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| Oct 21, 2007 4:55 PM |
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| Chat with Muraleedharan (Monsoon Images) |
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me: entha chornathu?
Muraleedharan: athu parayooooollla
so, happy vidyarambham
4:30 PM me: namukkum vidyayo? mmm
Muraleedharan: mazha engine?
me: kollaam
are you around or running around?
Muraleedharan: I am around, means?
4:31 PM me: around trichu, around college...
Muraleedharan: ayyo, this is coming to you from a chilly morning in chicago
me: My Gooooodddddd
when did you reach there?
4:32 PM Muraleedharan: one week.
me: yes, you had mentioned some such trip; how long is this chicago?
Muraleedharan: two more weeks
me: what will bring for me?
a madamma?
4:33 PM Muraleedharan: Abraham Lincoln?
me: poda kazhuthe
Muraleedharan: athu venda?
me: venda venda
Muraleedharan: what about the entire chicago school of criticism?
me: god forbid
4:34 PM Muraleedharan: pinne?
me: can you get a good video of king lear?
i will pay, of course
Muraleedharan: let me se
me: dont bother too much
4:35 PM if you can get it, tht is all
Muraleedharan: because I am staying put in the university, really have not yet gone to the city center
but I shall certainly try
me: what else is happening there
Muraleedharan: nothing much
the library is mine for two more weeks
I can do what I like in it
me: sleeping with white colonizers?
Muraleedharan: I gave three presentations to earn this privilege
4:36 PM me: you deserve it, no doubt
Muraleedharan: you will never think this is not in India. the library is full of Malayalam books
me: ayyeeee
Muraleedharan: this uty has the biggest south asia collection in the world
4:37 PM me: that is impressive
Muraleedharan: and also the b iggest south asia research interest
me: i see
4:38 PM Muraleedharan: Malayalam is being taught here, and Nisha, who does that is my host
4:39 PM me: oh, so you have our own people to keep track of your evil doings? bad, i pity you
Muraleedharan: yeah, one cannnot bluff
4:40 PM me: i did not mean that
Muraleedharan: there are white professors who speak chaste tamil and Hindi
what did u mean?
me: black tongue, white mask
Muraleedharan: oh
me: ah
4:41 PM here it is 4.45, what about there?
Muraleedharan: early morning, around 6
me: really difficult to believe though i know it is true
4:42 PM and chatting like this, as if we are in adjascent rooms
Muraleedharan: yeah. and you know, I do not even have a net connection
here it comes by wireless
4:43 PM me: oh oh oh......
Muraleedharan: and so I merely opened my lap top and saw that it got connected
me: wonders never cease
Muraleedharan: I am sure, we will have it in India within a year
it is wifi
me: i see
Muraleedharan: like the cell phone connection
4:44 PM me: i understand but i cannot believe really, that is all
Muraleedharan: well, in another year, you wil be doing it every day
because my friend in bsnl says they are soon to do it in india
me: let us see
4:45 PM Muraleedharan: tata indicome already have something similar but it needs a small gadget to be fixed on to ur laptop
4:46 PM me: ok, any presentations today? or just reading and enjoying?
Muraleedharan: alll presentations over, the rest of the days are mind
4:47 PM mine
that was the condition I put forward--all official work to be over in the first week
so that I am free for two weeks to ransak the library
me: wont you be going to Newyork?
Muraleedharan: not this time
this library is the biggest
4:48 PM especially in postcolonial, southasia, etc
me: so how do you bring material from there? phtocopy? or new methods?
Muraleedharan: no, I am looking mostly at electronic resources
microfilms etc
they can be saved to a pendrive
me: so we can all read what you bring?
4:49 PM Muraleedharan: most of the british govt records on India etc available here easily
me: must be interesting
Muraleedharan: in the kerala archive in tvm, one wil have to struggle to locate the dusty papers
kept in the most abominable way
me: they know how to do things
4:50 PM Muraleedharan: here they are all kpt in microfilm in an a/c room with
many computers to read
me: west is west; truth is truth
Muraleedharan: hmmmmm
me: i understand
your hmmmm
4:51 PM Muraleedharan: I hear that it is raining like mad there
me: yes, true
Muraleedharan: and also, that it is not yet thulavarsham
me: it looks like that
Muraleedharan: so, I come back only to see rains again?
me: thunder and rain in evenings
Muraleedharan: god
me: rains alone
so no pc or tv in the evenings
Muraleedharan: I hope things would be better by early november, when I am back
4:52 PM me: when you are back, things have to be better!!!!
what arrogance?
you think it stops raining for you?
Muraleedharan: I was hoping that I could escape thulavarsham with this trip
me: ok, request granted
Muraleedharan: thanks
4:53 PM me: ha ha
Muraleedharan: by the way, once I am back in Kerala, things would be less hectic
and I am open for that talk in ur colllege
provided u take me for lunch afterwards
me: thanks a lot
but your offer of masala?
Muraleedharan: that could be on the same evening
or another one
me: ok agreed
4:54 PM Muraleedharan: god knows what is happening to my classes
I am supposed to teach both film studies and women's lit
me: we should have a one day business with lots of fun, ok?
forget your kids
they have forgotten you
Muraleedharan: I had given them a pile of notes and asked them to do many assignemnts
me: and started studying themselves
Muraleedharan: hope they are doing it
me: i will see to i
it
4:55 PM Muraleedharan: ok
but make sure that it is not a tuesday
me: why?
Muraleedharan: that is the day when I screen films
got 3 hrs of work
me: ok
4:56 PM it is a wide choice; any day other than tuesday
no problem
Muraleedharan: yeah
preferably thursday orfirday
when I have work with I semster
and nothing to teach
me: ok,
Muraleedharan: tomjones, switt etc
swift
which I have already completed
me: ha ha hi hi
4:57 PM i am teaching lots this time, even poetry
Muraleedharan: what is there to teach on such topics?
me: nothing
if they read it
a big IF
Muraleedharan: all old lit, the guides and notes are availbel
me: true
Muraleedharan: and they are anyway going to depend on it
so I hate teaching such stuff
me: doubly true
4:58 PM teach only what they cant get from elsewhere
Muraleedharan: yeah
that is what I enjoy
me: same with studetns too
though they wont know it nwo
Muraleedharan: i know
I must go now
4:59 PM check my mail
and then start my day
me: ok, go, with all my love, dear, see you later
umma