Don’t infer too much

This is a very interesting story which fits into all the hard times that we face in life.
It starts like this, when Buddha had grown old, he shifted to the foothills of a mountain. One day he felt thirsty and Anand his follower went to fetch water from a nearby channel. Some time before a cart had crossed the channel and the water was muddy and leaves and mud all over the water. Ananda returned empty handed. He told Buddha that water was not fit to drink. Buddha asked him to go again, he again came back without water and told that he would get water from the river which was at a little far. But, Buddha sent him again, and this time when he reached the channel the mud had settled and the water was clear all the way.
Similar things happen in life, there may be times when we don’t find the water fit but if we can sit on the bank patiently or give it some more tries things will themselves sort themselves. You don’t have to put much effort. Just sit and observe and soon see the clear water rise to the top.

Leaving in Love

This one is inspired from the Hafiz’s poem I just read.
For those who are unaware about Hafiz, Hafiz was a great Persian poet and a Sufi saint with healing powers in poetry.
If I had to write about this topic, I probably would run into pages and pages and still would not be able to define it. Love is never to be defined, or may be lets put it this way love is not meant to be defined in words and if someone has put it in words it is not LOVE.
Love with no leaving is the ultimate and true love. At some point when your relationship with your beloved becomes like this, there is no more leaving:
Next time when you meet your beloved in a crowded city street or a lonely forest; there will be no “Leaving.” Your beloved will climb into your pocket, and you will just take yourself Along!
Can our love reach this stage/ passion?
Where the mind is without fear and reciprocation this might happen.

TWO

'Two' is a curious and interesting number, next only to number one. With two begins the fight to be number 1. Placed between number 1 and 3, it is start to multiplicity of things. The haves and the have nots’. Of beauty and ugliness. Of shrewdness and guilelessness. White and black. With ‘two’ comes the concept of more; more than one.
There comes the concept of relative. Relatively better, relatively lazy, relatively happy. Thus in short it brings with itself the a term called ‘comparison’. And with comparison comes unhappiness (because today happiness is relative).
What I have written till now is that two brings multiplicity. But the way it brings multiplicity is by the order of words which we use with it. Two by itself does not intend to be bad. It is the way we look at it. White OR Black. Good OR Bad. Happy OR Unhappy. It is the ‘OR’ that has made the difference.
Black AND White, Good AND Bad, together make up the universe. It is just the way we look at things. Look at things in totality, do not split things up. The way you look at look at things will make up all the difference in the state of your mind. You can either decide to be happy OR Sad, or be indifferent thereby being Happy AND Sad all time; the feeling of everything in nothingness.