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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember this about \u2018Attention\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a story titled \u2018The Baby Elephant<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018Wisdom of the Idiots\u2019. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Baby Elephant<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story from \u2018Wisdom of the Idiots\u2019 by Idries Shah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wisdom of the Idiots by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>