I wish to share the following story received through an email from a friend:
A professor in an American university called his final year students for a farewell tea party at his home. Since the students were too many, he brought out all sorts of cups and mugs he could find in his house along with the tea and asked the students to help themselves. When everyone settled with a cup or mug in his/her hand, he asked them to analyse their feelings. He asked, "Is it not that all of you wanted to pick-up the most expensive cups? Those who got the expensive ones felt proud and those, who had to settle for cheaper cups/mugs, felt disappointed and jealous of the others. Even now, is it not that you are eyeing each other's cups? And yet, you came here to enjoy tea, which is same in every cup/mug. Most importantly, you will leave behind the cups for which you spoiled the enjoyment of tea."
Life is like tea continuously being served in a variety of pots -- name, fame, position, possessions, etc. We spend the whole life running after them, while missing to enjoy the very life contained in them. Every atom in the universe is pulsating with the same life. We can enjoy it here and now through whatever we have at present.
A professor in an American university called his final year students for a farewell tea party at his home. Since the students were too many, he brought out all sorts of cups and mugs he could find in his house along with the tea and asked the students to help themselves. When everyone settled with a cup or mug in his/her hand, he asked them to analyse their feelings. He asked, "Is it not that all of you wanted to pick-up the most expensive cups? Those who got the expensive ones felt proud and those, who had to settle for cheaper cups/mugs, felt disappointed and jealous of the others. Even now, is it not that you are eyeing each other's cups? And yet, you came here to enjoy tea, which is same in every cup/mug. Most importantly, you will leave behind the cups for which you spoiled the enjoyment of tea."
Life is like tea continuously being served in a variety of pots -- name, fame, position, possessions, etc. We spend the whole life running after them, while missing to enjoy the very life contained in them. Every atom in the universe is pulsating with the same life. We can enjoy it here and now through whatever we have at present.
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