The Sea, the Mind and the Buddha

It is interesting to know the peculiar characteristics of the Sea.  Throw anything – Iron, Wood, Dead body, Glass anything at all in to the sea.  The Sea rejects them all and throw them back to its bank through its waves.  Throw Gold in to the sea it gratefully accept the gold and takes gold into the bottom and jealously guards the gold.  If one can dive deep into the sea and reaches the bottom, one can see the divine quality, glittering yellow metal there.

Mind, which is not a physical entity like the Sea, on the other hand displays contrasting characteristics.  Dive deep into the mind, and one would be horrified to see all the Shakespearean villains’ qualities like hatred, selfishness, greed, disloyalty etc., etc., lies in the bottom of the mind.  The Sea rejects all the bad things of the material world and accepts only the glowing golden divine qualities and makes life richer. Mind does quiet opposite, it makes the life miserable.

How to convert the mind to change its characteristics to make life richer?  Philosophers took the responsibility upon themselves.  You can divide philosophers into two categories.  Practical and imaginary.  Buddha represents practical philosophy while all the other philosophers represents the opposite view of Buddha and created (hypothetically) heaven and hell to make man tread the righteous path.

Go to east in search of Truth.  This is an old English saying.  This means turn to metaphysical from material philosophy.  Philosophy is the most difficult subject and much more difficult to adopt them in life.  Buddha never bothered about god, heaven or hell.  He interested himself in the ‘Present’.  He dealt with the method of training the mind.  He showed us, the common man, the easier path to attain ‘Ananda’ (the nearest word in English is Happiness).

If the nation as a whole or atleast a large number in it can inspire themselves with the spirit of Buddha and imbibe his spirit by which knowledge can flow into love and service of the people.  Truthfulness, unselfishness, compassion and service.  If we can imbibe these teachings of Buddha in our daily life we can create heaven on earth. 

Surrender to Buddha.

Buddham Sharanam Gachhami.