If Your Shoe Fits

“If your shoe fits, you need not worry about your leg” –  Osho

 

This saying may be applied further…

·        If your pant fits, you need not worry about your waist.

·        If your employee fits, you need not worry about your business.

·        If your husband/wife fits, you will not have any family worries.

·        If your mind fits, you will have no worries.

 

The effects of success or failures should not affect a calm mind. If the mind is calm it will be neutral to extreme happiness and sorrows. You need not worry about your self or anything for that matter if your mind fits.

      
If a shoe has minor problems, it can be rectified and reused. However if it has major problems, you need to throw it away and replace with a new shoe. This can be applicable to the employee/husband/wife and so on.

There was once a holy man who used to sit under a tree, meditating all the time. He was so still, while he was meditating, that doves used to sit on his shoulders. One day some children came by and asked whether he could catch a dove for them.

 

The holy man said, “It is a sin to disturb them”. However, as the children promised not harm the bird, he agreed to catch a dove on the following day.

The next day, the holy man closed his eyes with his mind set on silently catching the bird. The doves did not go anywhere near him. Do you know why? It is because his mind was not in harmony with when he wanted to catch the dove, and the doves understood that his mind was not in harmony.

When you have no hatred, no enmity, then you will have cultivated a sound mind which will be in harmony. Your mind will not only be calm then, but very strong. If you know how to harness the capabilities of the mind, it is possible to work wonders with its immense power.