One day, Bush and Rumsfeld were having a drink in the bar. Another man walked in and thought this was a good opportunity just to meet them in a bar like that. He walked up their table and asked, 'Hi guys, what are you doing?' Bush said. 'We are planning World War III'.
In the body that you carry right now, what came out of your mother’s womb is hardly there. Today, whatever you carry, it is all from Mother Earth. I am not trying to belittle the genetic or biological mother. It is just that if you are a spiritual seeker, it is extremely important for you to get the right perspective on everything.
Most adults assume that as soon as a child is born, it is time to become teachers. When a child enters your house, it is not the time to become a teacher, it is not the time to become a teacher, it is time to learn, because if you look at yourself and your child, your child is more joyous, isn't it? So it is time you learn life from them, not the other way around.
There is no huge bank of thoughts within you. Thoughts are just going and going, one at a time, one at a time, one at a time. If you try to do anything with them, they will go faster and faster because in your mind, there is no subtraction or division, there is only addition and multiplication. Can you take away one thought forcefully? Experiment and see: For the next 10 seconds, do not think about monkeys.
On a Purnima some 2,500 years ago, something special happened after which the world has never been the same. After almost eight years of struggle, Siddhartha Gautama had become very weak. His body was destroyed almost to the point of death.
