A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?
Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."
Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.
When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.
So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.
With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.
Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.
The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.
For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?
If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.
I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.
2006-08-30 03:51:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
source:swami sukhabodhananda
2006-08-30 03:53:36 · update #1
All that and no question. What a waste of space.
2006-08-30 03:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Great story and analogy, but kinda long - the people that need to read it, won't. You should have stopped at this line.
When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.
2006-08-30 04:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boring
2006-08-30 04:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, another dose of eastern wisdom from one of the 'ananda brothers'. while everything you said is true, it is submitted in the wrong context, and is therefore, moot. if you have a million dollars, and take it and bury it in your back yard, and it rots, it is worthless. but if you take it to a bank, where it's value is recognized, protected, and even to a degree, worshipped, you are then rich. this is a forum for answers, not for pontificating and espousing theologies. questions are for answers, and you have no question. who then, is really intelligent?
2006-08-30 04:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by grumpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a good waste of space. I agree and I liked it alot. But i liked the first half of the story and the second ?? uh ? well anyway.
2006-08-30 04:10:04 · answer #5 · answered by Izzy Blu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to be telling this to those potato heads who are posting things like they are better than god, and why does god let natural disasters happen. if i could rate you would get a thumbs up
2006-08-30 04:04:47 · answer #6 · answered by ipodlady231 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting... but what is the question? and what about outside stresses? it's all in how we choose to deal with ourselves after stress knocks us off course.
2006-08-30 04:09:41 · answer #7 · answered by swsbcabg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
got through 3 sentences and lost interest, douche-bag
2006-08-30 03:56:12 · answer #8 · answered by Shyguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thanx anyway for my 2 pt
2006-08-30 04:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by fadil z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice story... So what was the question?
2006-08-30 03:59:08 · answer #10 · answered by no need for a name 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋