Thoughts while drinking Cortadito at Ricky’s Bakery in Miami, after a conversation with a friend in Vila Verde in Brasil
Even if you have property (house, car and other intangibles) and you have debt, you are still poor and not Free.
Freedom from Debt
Freedom from Desire, most people do not need better cars, larger homes. If you have no desires, you will not fall prey to the forces of the society
: that compares your income to other
: compares car, houses with each other
Luis Vuitton bags are not attractive to me because I have no desire for them.
You work all your life, accumulate a little bit of money, retire and lead an idle life and then die.
What did you do?
For yourself? Yes, it is obvious
But more importantly, what did you do for others?
Your worth is not your house, your car, your bank account but the amount you have done for others
If you have doubts about this, ask any genuinely happy person of your acquaintance.
As Dalai Lama said
If you want to make yourself happy
Be compassionate
If you want to make another person happy
Be compassionate
As my 8-year-old niece (Haifa, Israel) said: the reason why we are on this earth, is to strive hard, to invent so that we can help others
Please work to get rid of, if you are plagued by them
Anger
Unfulfilled desires or unfulfillable desires
Dependence on others, emotionally or attachment
Disdain or Aversion
It is sad to go to your death with such feelings seething boiling in your head
There is still time
It is with the heart one sees (Le Petite Prince)
The path of truth is a work of the heart, not of the head. (Shams of Tabriz)
Technion University of Technology in Israel, one of the most innovative Universities in the world, having contributed so much for the welfare of the world. Outside Western Europe and USA and Canada, Israel with its small population has won the most Nobel Prizes!
A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT OF SHAMS E TABRIZ and a verse by him.
