Every child is nothing but a bundle of joy, but as we grow up, somewhere, we lose that joy. A child smiles 400 times a day. When a child grows up and becomes an adolescent, he smiles only 17 times a day, and when he becomes an adult, he smiles occasionally and that too...
Your courage and belief in yourself will be tested many, many times in your life. How you will react is up to you. Do you believe in yourself? Have you been able to overcome adversity before? Do you have the necessary tools to help you through the difficulty? If you answered yes, then you have...
In the movie Taare Zameen Par The art teacher tells the rude and cursing father of the dyslexic kid about Solomon Islands.. In those islands, the tribal don’t cut down a tree. They surround the tree and curse it for hours every day.. Within a few weeks, the tree dries up and becomes dead.. Many of us might...
You think life is miserable because you are hanging onto the desires of the past and also the unattainable desires. You are not accepting the present. You are not moving ahead. You are hoping for too much. You should be practical. Life is a mixture of problems and pleasure. What does your mind do? It...
If you try to get rid of the mind, it becomes a monster. If you just let the mind be, it will vanish! When you are not aware of the tricks and the mumbo-jumbo going on in the mind, then life is misery. This is because life is based on the mind. When you recognize...
Imagine yourself, sitting in a newly constructed room. You looked up and you see such a perfect tile ceiling. However, while you are admiring the ceiling, you notice one tile is missing. From then on, no matter how beautiful the ceiling is, you can’t fully enjoy its beauty just because of one single missing...
“A plum once said, ‘just because a banana lover came by, I converted myself into a banana. Unfortunately, his taste changed after a few months and so I became an orange. When he said I was bitter I became an apple, but he went in search of grapes. Yielding to the opinions of so...
An incident in the life of Goutama the Buddha: At the time, he was dwelling in a big meditation center in the city of Sāvatthī, the capital of the state of Kosala. Large numbers of monks and nuns would go there to learn Vipassana from him. Large numbers of men and women householders would...
Energy fluctuates, but don't be concerned about it too much. You seem to have too much free time, looking at your own energy, whether it is going up or down. Keep yourself busy. When you are busy, everything falls in place. Where is the time to be unhappy when you are so busy? When you...
Once Buddha was visiting a small village. There people got to know about his visit and started to come to him about their problems. One day, some people brought a blind man to him and said, “He is blind. We are his closest friends. We told him about light but he is not ready to...
