Thought For The Day

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.” ― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Thought For The Day

"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?” -  Zhuangzi

Thought for the Day

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man’s two hands, feet or eyelids, or the upper and lower rows of his teeth. To obstruct each other is against Nature’s law – and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction.”  ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

I have been reading the posthumously published book of Marcus Aurelius which has been entitled "Meditations." It was never a book about meditating nor did the author give his work a title. It was a journal the Roman Emperor updated daily. I think Marcus Aurelius was right in so much he had to say. What I find odd is the way followers of such wisdom, having discovered and absorbed the wisdom shared, still divide that wisdom into convenient groups. If Marcus Aurelius was Stoic then so was Siddartha Guatama. as was Jiddu Krishnamurti but also Lao Tzu. The similarities they shared reveal how the differences they had were in the name their followers created after their deaths, not the wisdom they spoke off in life. We really do not need groups or symbols for neither attach any worth or add any truth.

The only sight alteration I would make to the above quote is regarding good and evil as they surely are man-made concepts but not nature made?