“I want to do meditation,” someone said to me the other day, “but, it doesn’t seem to be my cup of tea. Is meditation the only path to self-realization?”
“Of course not,” I replied. “You may arrive at your truth walking an entirely different path.”
“But what do you mean when you say discover your own truth and how to go about it?” he asked referring to the tagline at the end of my video discourses.
I thought it was a valid question, and I’ve met many who posed similar queries in the past. After all, in our world full of noise with countless paths and infinite choices, how do you know which one will lead you to your goal? Well, it’s not as difficult as it may seem in the beginning. The key is to realize is that simple truths of life can’t be realized in complex designs. This person’s question reminded me of a little Zen story.
A newbie joined two senior monks who sat in intense meditation near a lake. The new monk had practiced meditation for several years under a different teacher but hearing good things about this monastery, he decided to shift.
Half way through the meditation, one of the senior monks got up and said, “The sun’s shining, I’d better get my umbrella.” Stepping on the water before him, he simply walked across the lake onto a plateau where their hut was.
