Just happens with mind…..

  Just happens with mind…..  

Let me share with you a very thought provoking story .

It happened in the house of a Great Worrier. Such thing happens in our life too. We are not very particular to understand the mind game. 

One night suddenly the Worrier becomes aware of a mouse. Not the mouse attach to your desktop. It was a living organic mouse. He was a great worrier, true swordsman. He becomes very angry because the mouse was sitting just in front of him and looking in to his eyes. No one had dared so much as the mouse was daring.

A born worrier, so he pulled his sword. The mouse was steering at him. The mouse did not move. Now, the Worrier attacked the mouse with the sward, suddenly the mouse jumped and the sword was broken in to pieces. It fell on the floor. The worrier was annoyed, become mad.He took another sward,he tried & tried to get the mouse.
More he tried, more he was defeated.  It is really difficult to fight with a mouse.

Many of us have experienced this in our personal life. Warrior has no option he has to accept his defeat. With this the mouse becomes bolder and bolder. It simply jumped on the worrier’s bed.

Worrier went out and consulted his fellow warrior. He said” This thing has never happened in my life, no one can dare so much so as this ordinary mouse, this mouse is extraordinary. I am totally defeated”.

On hearing his friend simply smiled, the worrier become   more annoyed. He said, ‘You are making fun of me’. 

His friend said,’ It makes no sense to fight with a mouse, it is better to bring a cat’.

Rumor went on. Great Warier is defeated by the daring mouse. Even, cats heard it. No cat was ready to come. All the cats gathered and had brain storming session.

They selected their leader and virtually forced her to represent them. The mouse was not ordinary one. They said will stand outside ,you as our leader  represent cat community. The leader was afraid. She was the leader of the crowd. Now, the leader cat was forced to enter the room. She entered, nervous and trembling. The mouse was sitting on bed.

The cat started thinking.  

What to do? What method is to be used? What technique to apply? Thinking was going on. While the cat was thinking, embolden mouse suddenly attacked the cat and ran.

This never happened before. There was no mention about such incidence mouse attacked the cat. The leader cat came out with the shock she collapsed and died.  Matter has become very serious. 

Warrior was advised that ordinary cat won’t do. You go to the palace and bring kings cat. The Royal cat can do something. The Warrior went to the palace and explained the King.

The King extended him his helping hand. The cat from palace came.  Now the Worrier was afraid. The Royal cat looked very ordinary. The cat that died was much stronger, bigger. Can this cat survive? What answer I can give to the king, if this Royal cat too fail.

The cat entered the room. All the cats, other warriors’ were outside.  The Royal Cat killed the mouse and came back with the mouse in her mouth. All the cats waiting outside said what you did? Our leader is dead. The Great Worrier was defeated number of times.  You simply killed the mouse? What technique you applied?
The Royal cat replied, ‘I am cat that is enough, there is no technique. It is enough that I entered as I am cat'.  Yes, it’s true.

Cat should enter as cat. True, its real cat’s walk.

This is neither story from Issab’s book nor a Zen story. 

If, you are the master and act spontaneously as per your nature things will be simple. More you fight more you are afraid no one will rescue you, you will collapse.

Attitude matters. We are all fighting with mouse. Rat is big brother of mouse.

We say and it is true we are all in rat race.  

Think over and ponder.

Thanks for being with me.  

Ajeet Bhide