The Teacher was walking through the market place with his students. They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope. Teacher told the m...
The Teacher was walking through the market place with his students.
They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope. Teacher told the man to wait
and asked his disciples to surround them. "I am going to teach you
something" and continued...
"Tell me who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man or the man is bound to the cow?
The students said without hesitation "Of course the cow is bound to
the man!. The man is the master. He is holding the rope. The cow has
to follow him wherever he goes. The man is the master and the cow is
the slave."
"Now watch this", said the teacher and took a pair of scissors from
his bag and cut the rope. The cow ran away from the master and the
man ran after his cow. "Look, what is happening", said the Teacher .
"Do you see who the Master is? The cow is not at all interested in
this man. The cow in fact, is trying to escape from this man." This is
the case with our mind.
Like the cow, all the non-sense that we carry inside is not
interested in us. We are interested in it, we are keeping it together
somehow or the other. We are going crazy trying to keep it all
together under our control.
The moment we lose interest in all the garbage filled in our head,
and the moment we understand the futility of it, it will start to
disappear. Like the cow, it will escape and disappear." We can allow
disappearing of all the unwanted things from our mind and feel relaxed.
