Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today ‘let us remember this about ‘Attention’.
Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. We feed the hunger blindly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.
This week I bring to your attention a story titled ‘The Baby Elephant’ from the book titled ‘Wisdom of the Idiots’. It is a carefully chosen collection of illustrative anecdotes and stories used in Sufi teaching here the stories contain several levels of meaning and work like psychological mirrors in which the reader may see himself and reality reflected, and come to better understand both.
The Baby Elephant
Once upon a time there was a baby elephant who heard someone say: ‘Look, there is a mouse? The person who said it was looking at a mouse – but the elephant thought that the person was referring to him.
Now, there were very few mice in that country; and in any case they tended to stay in their holes, and their voices were not very loud. But the baby elephant thundered around, ecstatic at his discovery, ‘I am a mouse!’ He said it so loudly and so often, and to so many people that – believe it or not – there is now an entire country where almost everyone believes that elephants, and particularly baby elephants, are mice.
Story from ‘Wisdom of the Idiots’ by Idries Shah
I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:
Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.
Before concluding today’s episode please pay attention to these words of a Storyteller.
My stories require, at this stage, no extra commentary, imaginings, or guesswork by you, me, or anyone else. The very worst would be that of moralizing. To explain away is to forget. Thus, let the stories which you can remember do their own work by their very diversity. Familiarize yourself with them.
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Namaste.
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