Ashva-prushtam jayathe! (The law is an ass- Charles Dickens)

When someone asks you a question

you don’t want to answer, smile and ask,

‘Why do you want to know?’

Conquering the mind

Any Spiritual path interested in transforming the self, shall start with “conquering the mind.”

Why?
Because our lives are boxed in a mental cage and we cannot truly increase our capacity for enjoyment in life and fullness when our mind jumps from one place into another. This “normal” phenomena of the modern human being, cancels our feelings, which are of paramount importance to enjoy life.

In reality there is nothing to “conquer,” but the term “conquering” is used to denote that the mind will no longer “run the show” in our lives.

That is a great transformation in itself. When the mind runs in an altered state, or non-stop, it is able to take over and affect our body with stress and anxiety and distort our perception of life.

For example: Do you recall how your last breakfast took place? Let us say that you need to go to work after eating. See how the mind sends a message to “hurry up” not allowing us to fully enjoy our meal, or while we are eating and tasting the food, another thought comes up which does not allow for the full experience of eating, to take place.

The mind is full with pre-conceptions, beliefs, taboos, and judgments and will not allow us to feel a healthy “emptiness,” from all of that. A break of “nothingness.” That emptiness is very important for newness to occur in our lives.

Otherwise, it is the same old thing under a different perspective.

The mind needs to be observed so we can catch how it operates and learn from it. Then, we may increase our capacity for enjoyment and appreciation of life; that is our feelings.

For instance, love to God is what many religions use as a way to overcome the heaviness of the mind by using feelings. However many times those feelings are mixed with fear. When there is fear there is no love and no feelings.
An empty mind is necessary to be able to decorate that empty space with something new. Otherwise we are just adding and crowding the space with additional information.

For example, if someone wants to add “tolerance” in their lives; many will define in their minds what is “tolerance” and will act it out whenever they remember it.

All of that is mental information. Nothing will sink in unless the mind has been emptied from preconceptions and the being is open and accepting to the different scenes which life may bring.

For example, a family may have a dog. The son “thinks” that he loves the dog but doesn’t take care of its needs and does not clean up after that dog. The mother is tired of that dog. The dog senses the environment and becomes adversarial. The mother poisons the dog since getting rid of it through another person will hurt the son’s feelings.
The son is hurt anyway and blames a neighbor for poisoning his dog.

The mother tells a friend about this incident.
What the friend could say?
Whatever the friend says will only show what is in his mind. There are some friends who will side with the mother. Other friends who could find wrong in her actions based on some moral standard. Those are the activities of the mind.

When feelings are operating, a friend could listen and feel. That empathy with someone’s suffering is enough, when there are true feelings of compassion. This is not a “learned” mental action such as giving someone a verbal teaching or making that person feel worse than what she feels.

That openness to feel and accept the role of others does not come from a mental space, but from a heart without self-created mind barriers.

That is more than what tolerance could be. It is called love… and that cannot come from the mind and its concepts, logic and definitions

Once a British guy asked Swami Vivekananda:
“Can’t you wear proper clothes to be a gentleman?”.

Swami Vivekananda smiled and said:
“In your culture, tailor makes gentleman, but in our culture character makes gentlemen.!”

Interview with sycophant Burqa Dutt

Burqa Dutt was standing in front of Sonia Gandhi’s residence to cover some news when a mad dog starts chasing and attacking a little girl.
That’s when a man bravely intervenes, fights with the rabid creature and kills it before it could harm the girl.

Burqa runs to the man and congratulates him on his heroic effort and proudly tells him:
“Today’s headline in my show would be ‘Sonia supporter saves girl’s life’ ”

The man says:
”But I am not a Sonia supporter “…

Burqa says no problem; I’ll put it as:
“Congress worker saves girl’s life”.

The man then says:
“No, but I am a BJP worker”.

Burqa says “Oh!” and walks away.

10 minutes later, breaking news flashing on NDTV…
“Saffron Terrorist Massacres Innocent Dog”

Water Panther

Enjoy the ride………….

Ohhhhhhhhh MAMA! I WANT one of these!!!

http://youtu.be/2150i…Vc

Bob Died -

His will provided $40,000 for an elaborate funeral.

As the last guests departed the affair, his wife Janis turned to her oldest
and dearest friend. ‘Well, I’m sure Bob would be pleased,’ she said.

’I’m sure you’re right,’ replied Brenda ,
who lowered her voice and leaned in closer.
‘How much did this really cost?’

‘All of it,’ said Janis .. ‘Forty thousand.’

‘No way,’ Brenda exclaimed!
‘I mean, it was very nice, but $40,000?’

Janis answered,
‘The funeral was $6,500. I donated $500 to the church.
The whiskey, wine and snacks were another $500.
The rest went for the Memorial Stone.’

Brenda computed quickly.
$32,500 for a Memorial Stone?

How big is it?’

A little known fact…

The first testicular guard (�box�) was used in cricket in 1874

And the first helmet was used in 1974.

So, it took 100 years for men to realise that their brains could also be important….or maybe pinpoint where their brains actually are…

Colours

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Just%20Colors/ind…tm

Albert Einstein’s wife often suggested that he dress more professionally, when he headed off to work.

“Why should I?” He would invariably argue.

Everyone knows me there.”

When the time came for Einstein to attend his first major conference, she begged him to dress up a bit.

“why should I?” Said Einstein.

“No one knows me there

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Albert Einstein was often asked to explain the general theory of relativity.

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour,” he once declared.

“Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity!”

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When albert Einstein was working in Princeton university.

One day he was going back home he forgot his home address.

The driver of the cab did not recognize him.

Einstein asked the driver if he knows Einstein’s home.

The driver said “who does not know Einstein’s address? Everyone in Princeton knows.

Do you want to meet him?”

Einstein replied “I am Einstein.

I forgot my home address, can you take me there? ”

The driver reached him to his home and did not even collect his fare from him.

One day, a police officer pulls over a guy.

“Is there a problem officer?” the man asks him.

“No, there’s no problem. I just noticed that you were driving so well that I wanted to give you this.” the officer replies handing him over a $100 bill

“So, what are you going to get with that money?”

The driver takes a minute to think then says
“Wow, uhh… I’ll probably get myself a license.”

The man in the passenger seat adds,
“Don’t pay attention to him; he’s like that when he’s drunk.”

Another guy who was asleep in the back seat wakes up to see the cop and says,
“See, I told you guys we wouldn’t get far in a stolen car!”

Following that, there is a voice coming from the trunk,
“Are we over the border yet?”

The cop fainted.

A man and his wife walked into a dentist’s office.

The man said to the dentist, "Doc, I’m in one heck of a hurry.

I have two buddies sitting out in my car waiting for us to go play golf, so forget about the anaesthetic.

I don’t have time for the gums to get numb.

I just want you to pull the tooth, and be done with it!

We have a 10:00 AM tee time at the best golf course in town and it’s 9:30 already… I don’t have time to wait for the anaesthetic to work!’

The dentist thought to himself, “My goodness, this is surely a very brave man asking to have his tooth pulled without using anything to kill the pain.”

So the dentist asks him, “Which tooth is it sir?”

The man turned to his wife and said:
“Open your mouth Honey, and show him.”

Three men were drunk and they stopped a taxi.
The taxi driver figured that they were drunk out of their minds.
So he just switched on the engine and switched it off and told them:
“We have arrived”.
The first man gave him money.
The second one thanked him.
But the third one slapped the taxi driver.

The taxi driver was stunned because he was hoping that none of them must have had realized that the car didn’t move an inch.

So, he asked the third man: “what was that for?”

The third man replied:

“Control your speed next time ……you almost killed us…..”

There is an Arab in a taxi……….

He asks the chauffeur to turn off the radio because
he must not hear music as decreed by
his religion and, in the time of the prophet,
there were no music no radio…….

So the chauffeur turns off the radio,
stops the car and opens the back door.

The Arab asks him: what are you doing?

The chauffeur answers: In the time of the prophet there were no taxis.
So get out and wait for a camel.