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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. 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 fable titled \u2018The Disease<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018The Magic Monastery\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Magic Monastery is rich in thought-provoking material, and can be read and enjoyed at many levels. It is also designed as a course in non-linear thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Disease<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A nightingale once said to a peacock:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I trill, people gather to listen to the beauty and purity of my voice – man may be a murderer but he is also an aesthete.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peacock listened well, and decided to get an admiring crowd for his beautiful plumage, something far more exquisite than anything that the nightingale could show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So he went to a place where human beings congregated, and pranced in front of a group of people, folding and unfolding his tail, strutting and thrusting his feathers in front of everyone’s eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the men said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something wrong with that unfortunate peacock – he cannot keep still. It must be some illness.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they seized the peacock and killed it, in case the disease spread to their domestic fowls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fable from \u2018The Magic Monastery\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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The Magic Monastery by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>