THE IDEAL TIME

If you wait for the ideal situation, it will never come. If
You create the ideal situation, it will always be, whenever
You choose for it to be.

There are plenty of excuses you can make for why this is not
The time to act. And while you're busy making those excuses,
Someone else is busy taking those same actions that you are
Merely considering.

The time is right when you make it right. Waiting and hoping
For things to get better will just allow things to get
Worse.

         
If it's important to you, figure out a way to get started on
It now. Because the more you delay, the more you're telling
Yourself that it's really not that important.

Why would you want to spend your time setting yourself up
For disappointment? Instead, you can spend that time
Marching steadily toward your goals.

The ideal time is when you make it, and what you make it.
Make it now, and make it great.

BECOME A LAKE!!!

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" the Master asked.

"Awful," spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake,

The old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?"

"Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said,

"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.

 The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into.

 So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things .....

 Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"

The True Master WITHIN

A man went in a search of truth. A first religious man he met was sitting under tree, just out side his own village.

He asked, " i am searching for true master. pl tell me the characteristics,
His description was very simple. He said,
" you find him sitting under such and such tree, sitting in such and such posture, his hand making such and such gestures- that is enough to know he is the true master,

The seeker started searching, It is said that thirty years passed while he wandered the whole earth. He visited many places but never met the master,

He met many master but none were true master. He return to his own village completely exhausted,.

As he was returning he was surprised, he could not believe it, that old man was seated under the same tree, and how he could see that this was the very that the old man had spoken of
"...... he will be sitting under such and such tree ....." and his posture was exactly as he had described. "It was the same posture he was sitting in thirty years ago-
was i blind ?
That exact expression on his face, The exact gestures.

He felt at his feet saying
" why didn't you tell me in that first place ?
why did you misdirect me for these thirty years ?
why didn't you tell me that you are the true master ?"
The old man said,I told you, but you were not ready to listen.

You were not ready to come home without wandering away, you had to knock on the doors of a thousand houses to come
to your own home, only then could you return, i said it every thing- beneath such and such tree.
I was describing this very tree, the posture i was sitting in, but you were too fast, you couldn't hear correctly, you were in hurry.

you were going some where to search. searching
was very important for you. the truth was not so important.
" But you have come! I was feeling tired, sitting continuously in this posture for you.

you were wandering for thirty years, but think of me sitting under this tree , I know some day you would come, but what if i had already passed away ? I waited for you, you have come , you had to wander for thirty years, but that's your own faults, the master was already here.

" It happens many times in our life that we cannot see what is near & inside us, and what attract us, is the distant drum which sound sweeter, we are pulled by distant dreams.

Try to believe in yourself and try to see inside, you will not believe you will find a Master within you.

EFFORTLESS PEACE OF MIND

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink! So he came back and told Buddha, The water in there is very muddy. I don't think it is fit to drink.

After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be ... and the mud settled down on its own “ and you got clear water... Your mind is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don't have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.

What did Buddha emphasize here? He said, It is effortless. Having 'peace of mind' is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless process. When there is peace inside you, that peace permeates to the outside. It spreads around you and in the environment, such that people around start feeling that peace and grace.

“Limitations live only in our mind. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless”

The Power Of Mind

Introduction

          Millions of years ago at the time of apes, the world was not the same as it is right now. Slowly and gradually, evolution took place and apes were evolved to humans. We humans have a strong mind which imagined various ideas and possibilities and is always in search of development.

          Earlier when no major scientific invention took place, people used to believe that earth was flat, centered in the universe and sun revolved around it. Later, scientists discovered many things and thus today our world is much different then it was about 1500 years ago.

          The biggest question arises in our mind is how? And why? Why these few scientists did made a research and became successful and how come people before them did not do the same thing. There are three reasons as its answer which is imagination, determination and finally invention.

          Imagination leads to determination,

                   Determination leads to related action,

                             This finally leads to Invention of desired thing.

                   “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

History reveals the fact that though a person may not be so good at studies or maybe financially weak but if he has above three things (Imagination, Determination, Invention) then he is in need of nothing else but to work according to them. E.g. Sir Thomas Alva Edison was home schooled, Sir Albert Einstein was forced to leave his school, businessman like late Shree Dhirubhai Ambani (Founder of reliance industries) failed in 10 grade and his father was a mere school master in a small village of India yet today his industrial empire is among top ten biggest industries of the world, Sir Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft corporation) never completed college, Sir Richard Branson (Founder of Virgin group) was a dyslexia patient, and the list never ends. Even the educated people like Sir Isaac Newton, Shree Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (Owner of Arcelor Mittal, famously known as ‘Steel King’) had achieved success because they had great imagination and determination. World leader Mahatma Gandhi was a single bodied thin person but his determination had enough power to awaken entire India and entire World. Such determination came after imagination, these famous people imagined what they wanted to be or have and so were determined about their requirements and thus achieved what they desired.

          Thus if we imagine some thing in our mind, then only can we crave and work for the same but if we don’t have any good desire and imagination then we will remain in a circle of problems.

“Limitations live only in our mind. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless”

                                                                                      Jamie paolinetti