116 - Too busy to take the blindfold off

When the master invited the Governor to practice meditation, and the Governor said he was too busy, this is the reply he got, "You put me in my mind the condition of a man walking blind-folded into the jungle - and too busy to take the blindfold off."

When the Governor pleaded lack of time, the Master said, "It is a mistake to think that meditation cannot be practiced for lack of time. The real cause is agitation of the mind."

There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt axe because he did not have the time, to stop and sharpen the blade.






source: Stories from Here and There, Ekalavya Education Foundation - By: Sunil Handa - http://www.eklavya.org/storyhere.html