Path vs Goal

Once upon a time, someone bumped into a man heading northbound in a horse carriage hastily. Wondering why, he asked him why he was making such a haste. The man in the carriage said he was going to a country locating somewhere in the south.

The first man then asked, “Why do you go to the north even though the country is at South?”

The man in the carriage said, “My horse is a good runner so there shouldn’t be no problem”

Embarrassed to what he has heard, the first man said “Even if your horse is good, you cannot get the country if it leads you to South.”

Then the man said “No, my horse is good. My driver works well. So I will get the destination eventually.”


"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, Few in pursuit of the goal. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Cat buddha in meditation

Sleeping is the king of meditation.

Calmness

When the waves and surfs on the surface of a lake subside, a true view of whole park appears.
Similarly, our true being emerges from the bottom as our emotion, impression and thoughts subsided.

The word “Emotion” came from a Latin, “Emovere” which means “displacing, moving”. Understanding and controlling of the emotion is starting point for the road to a Buddha.

- Photo: Russel State Park, Georgia, USA

Buddha around us

“At a desk on one side of the room sat a person. I couldn’t tell whether it was male or female; the face and body structure could be either….

But it was the radiation that stunned me. It was like standing in bright spring that was filled with every human emotion that ever existed. It was equally balanced. One moment it was male, then I was sure it was female. A true equal- a He/She. HeShe!”



-- from “Ultimate Journey” by Robert Monroe.