Who wants enlightenment?
Lord Buddha was visiting a village once.
One of the men there, asked him, “ You keep saying that everyone is capable of enlightenment. Then why doesn’t everyone end up becoming enlightened?”
Buddha smiled and told the man to do a simple exercise — he asked him to go visit every person in the village and prepare a sheet that had each person’s name written in it along with the desire that they deeply hold in their heart.
The village was not very large and consequently, the man was done with his task by the evening. Lord Buddha asked the man to check the sheet and see how many of the villagers had written enlightenment as their desire.
There was none.
Lord Buddha explained. That every man is capable of enlightenment is very different from every man wanting to be enlightened. If you want it, then consider it to be possible. If your quest is for the truth no power on earth can stop you. But if you don’t long for truth, then too there is no power that can give it to you.
Every profound journey in the universe begins with a deep longing desire …not just vague curiosity, but an explosive thirst.
Either there is the explosive thirst, or there is nothing.
‘Either there is meditation, or there is nothing” — Osho
Musings in the time of lockdown. @Subhadeep on behalf of Team Jubi
