True Education Is To Learn From Experience
Aging of thieves entered a bank. A They made the employees face the wall with their hands on the wall. After emptying the bank vaults, they started taking valuables such as cash, watch, phones, and other things that the employees were carrying with them. One of them handed over something to his friend who was standing next to him. His friend asked, "Why are you giving me something when the robbers are emptying our pockets?" The employee answered, "I just returned the $200 that I owed you." We are full of cunning, aren’t we? "My mind is such a problem. Iam not able to decipher how my mind is working." Many seekers ask me this question. It is impressive to know you are observing your mind. Mind is nothing but thoughts and thoughts repeat themselves. Ask yourself, "Why are my thoughts repeated? “Then you will see, it is because you have not digested the experiences of life. If you eat an apple and don't digest the apple, the undigested apple creates stomach disorders. Similarly, if experiences are not digested it repeats itself. What does it mean, to digest experiences in life? We have to learn from our experiences how to get a positive meaning from the experience. Then, even though failures, we become richer. Walt Disney failed many times, but learnt the right lessons and hence failure was not frustrating for him. Rather, it was fertilizer for his creativity. Also, one has to learn the art of ending one's past and not constantly fret and fume over it. Ident through a divorce and that pains me," someone said. I said, "Learn to end that incident in your mind instead of carrying it."You are carrying the burden of yesterday, And hence you are not alert to the present and not sensitive to the present. The dissatisfaction of the past is polluting the present. Teach your mind to leave the past, let go of the past. Learn from past failures. Let it teach you the right lessons. What is education? An ignorant person may not be an unlearned man. A learned man may be stupid for he knows only from books and not from his experiences. Education helps in understanding through self-observation. Our present system of education helps us to get employed and earn money. True education helps us to understand our conflict, the stupid ways of our mind, to end our hurtthus learn to optimise life and notvictim to life's situations. True education enables you tea doormat in your office. Learn tocreative. Learn to grow in your life Watch your mind deceiving you ant hen the mind will learn to be creaEducation is just not for giving livelihood but giving you the art oflivingwholly and joyously. Some asked me, "I am a victim office when someone disagrees w How do I overcome it?" Learn to coot people despite differences so thdon't get trapped in differences. Ifcan still bond with the person youdisagree with, then you are maturThen you are bigger than thedifferSuch a person will be effective, antruly an educated person.
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True Education Is To Learn From Experience
Aging of thieves entered a bank. A They made the employees face the wall with their hands on the wall. After emptying the bank vaults, they started taking valuables such as cash, watch, phones, and other things that the employees were carrying with them. One of them handed over something to his friend who was standing next to him. His friend asked, "Why are you giving me something when the robbers are emptying our pockets?" The employee answered, "I just returned the $200 that I owed you." We are full of cunning, aren’t we? "My mind is such a problem. Iam not able to decipher how my mind is working." Many seekers ask me this question. It is impressive to know you are observing your mind. Mind is nothing but thoughts and thoughts repeat themselves. Ask yourself, "Why are my thoughts repeated? “Then you will see, it is because you have not digested the experiences of life. If you eat an apple and don't digest the apple, the undigested apple creates stomach disorders. Similarly, if experiences are not digested it repeats itself. What does it mean, to digest experiences in life? We have to learn from our experiences how to get a positive meaning from the experience. Then, even though failures, we become richer. Walt Disney failed many times, but learnt the right lessons and hence failure was not frustrating for him. Rather, it was fertilizer for his creativity. Also, one has to learn the art of ending one's past and not constantly fret and fume over it. Ident through a divorce and that pains me," someone said. I said, "Learn to end that incident in your mind instead of carrying it."You are carrying the burden of yesterday, And hence you are not alert to the present and not sensitive to the present. The dissatisfaction of the past is polluting the present. Teach your mind to leave the past, let go of the past. Learn from past failures. Let it teach you the right lessons. What is education? An ignorant person may not be an unlearned man. A learned man may be stupid for he knows only from books and not from his experiences. Education helps in understanding through self-observation. Our present system of education helps us to get employed and earn money. True education helps us to understand our conflict, the stupid ways of our mind, to end our hurtthus learn to optimise life and notvictim to life's situations. True education enables you tea doormat in your office. Learn tocreative. Learn to grow in your life Watch your mind deceiving you ant hen the mind will learn to be creaEducation is just not for giving livelihood but giving you the art oflivingwholly and joyously. Some asked me, "I am a victim office when someone disagrees w How do I overcome it?" Learn to coot people despite differences so thdon't get trapped in differences. Ifcan still bond with the person youdisagree with, then you are maturThen you are bigger than thedifferSuch a person will be effective, antruly an educated person.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Sukhabodhananda and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Sukhabodhananda and Speaking Tree,Times of India