a philosopher and his students..............

[hawkeye]

A philosopher come to his students, take a jar, beads, sand and a cup of coffee. Then he ask his students “This jar full or empty????? “. All the students reply” It is empty”. The philosopher full the jar with the beads and repeat his question “And now, is it full or empty?????”. The student reply:” Now it is full”. After that the philosopher put the sand in the jar (and the sand enter between the beads) and also repeat his question” And now, is it full or empty??????”. The students reply “It is full”. Then the philosopher spills the coffee in the jar and repeats his question, so the students reply that it is full. Then the philosopher say : the jar is our days, the beads are essential things in our life like family and the sand is an extra things in our life like the job. If we full our life with extra things we will find no place for essential things but if we fill it with essential things we will find a place for extra things.
Finally a student ask the philosopher” What about the coffee?????”. The philosopher reply” Even if you are busy there is some time to sip a cup of coffee with your friends”.

 

[china]

HA,ha, cool Hawkeye

 

[Cliffy]

But the adult is not the highest stage of development. The end of the cycle is that of the independent, clear-minded, all-seeing Child. That is the level known as wisdom. When the Tao te Ching and other wise books say things like, "Return to the beginning; become a child again" that's what they are referring to. Why do the enlightened seem filled with light and happiness like children? Why do they sometimes even look and talk like children? Because they are. The wise are Children Who Know. Their minds have been emptied of the countless minute somethings of small learning and filled with the great wisdom of the Great Nothing, the Way of the Universe.

The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
http://groups.gaia.com/gaia_books/2184/the-tao-of-pooh/by_benjamin-hoff

 

[hawkeye]

:hello1:Every one has a child inside her/him.Just let us make this child wise:hello1:

 

[china]

Some one very wise once said that the Kingdom of heaven belongs to a child or something like that .I wonder why He said that.

 

[AndyF]

hawkeye:

Cute, but I Disagree.

We are spirits with bodies, and not the opposite, or, bodies alone. The essentials of true LIFE(everlasting), and not life(empirical), can be found in doing God's work while in exile here. A Spirit is self contained therefore not in need of experiential stimuli. The necessities of the soul are bestowed and is required only from God has it's life source.

Things of this world are just things and will pass, one receives gratification for doing the things of God only when it is bestowed has rewards for a virtuous life in the service of God.

Focus is on God and His work, everything else is granted.

Ref: Ecclesiastes,Wisdom.

Andy