Well this is a massage to all the people who do not cherish to take their everyday bath seriously (includes me too…). It goes this way:
Everyday early in the morning a Zen Master asked his disciples: how many of you have bathed this morning? Almost every body raise their hands dutifully. Next question: how many of you are aware you bathed when you did?
Not a single hand was raised.
Bathing is an act. Bathing with complete awareness that you are bathing is different. Today, all of you must have bathed (hopefully) and all of you were aware of what you were doing when you did that?
When you brushed your teeth how many of you were aware that you were brushing your teeth? When you were aware of the hot water on your body? Were you aware that your body was just getting ready after the bath, and your life was getting rejuvenated after the bath? How many of you were aware of all these things were happened?
A small Zen story:
A king went to a master, and asked: ‘Master how can I become enlightened? Tell me all the practices you do. What did you do to be come one? Pleas teach me’
The master says: ‘Oh! I eat when I eat; I sleep when I sleep that is all I do’.
The king could not understand. The master explained: ‘when I eat, I do not do anything else when I sleep I only sleep I do not do anything else’
But what we do? Recall how you eat. You will remember that you were watching TV or reading a magazine when you were eating. If you were calm, sitting quietly and eating your wife would have been there to report some problems in the house.
So in one way or another, when you eat, your mind does everything else but focus on the food and eating. You do every thing except eating.
We treat food with such scant respect. It is just a form of garbage bag. It withholds its energy unless you become aware of what you eat. If you treat your food with respect and are aware of what you eat when you eat, wellness results.
This is true even when you sleep! When you sleep you do everything else except sleeping. Because, only when have your nightmare and fear strokes. You then have disturbed sleep. When you are dead tired ….you sleep 100%.
Catch yourself in the act. Become aware. That will set your inner transformation in motion.
Ok …if does not make any sense to you….its fantastic….but it is certainly a great idea to take a bath …since it keeps people around you HAPPY and GAY ! ! !.
Everyday early in the morning a Zen Master asked his disciples: how many of you have bathed this morning? Almost every body raise their hands dutifully. Next question: how many of you are aware you bathed when you did?
Not a single hand was raised.
Bathing is an act. Bathing with complete awareness that you are bathing is different. Today, all of you must have bathed (hopefully) and all of you were aware of what you were doing when you did that?
When you brushed your teeth how many of you were aware that you were brushing your teeth? When you were aware of the hot water on your body? Were you aware that your body was just getting ready after the bath, and your life was getting rejuvenated after the bath? How many of you were aware of all these things were happened?
A small Zen story:
A king went to a master, and asked: ‘Master how can I become enlightened? Tell me all the practices you do. What did you do to be come one? Pleas teach me’
The master says: ‘Oh! I eat when I eat; I sleep when I sleep that is all I do’.
The king could not understand. The master explained: ‘when I eat, I do not do anything else when I sleep I only sleep I do not do anything else’
But what we do? Recall how you eat. You will remember that you were watching TV or reading a magazine when you were eating. If you were calm, sitting quietly and eating your wife would have been there to report some problems in the house.
So in one way or another, when you eat, your mind does everything else but focus on the food and eating. You do every thing except eating.
We treat food with such scant respect. It is just a form of garbage bag. It withholds its energy unless you become aware of what you eat. If you treat your food with respect and are aware of what you eat when you eat, wellness results.
This is true even when you sleep! When you sleep you do everything else except sleeping. Because, only when have your nightmare and fear strokes. You then have disturbed sleep. When you are dead tired ….you sleep 100%.
Catch yourself in the act. Become aware. That will set your inner transformation in motion.
Ok …if does not make any sense to you….its fantastic….but it is certainly a great idea to take a bath …since it keeps people around you HAPPY and GAY ! ! !.
