Very well said, Sue. I agree with life is satisfying once we stop focusing on other's happiness and instead of focusing on ourselves. It was a difficult lesson but one that changed my life.
Oh Wow! I wasn't expecting you to put God as our business partner at the end. I was too busy getting mad at the man in the story who kept the 100%.
Great story plot, btw. You certainly zeroed in on the man's ingratitude effectively. I guess, we all experience a bit of that ingratitude at one time or another in our lives. A big Ooops!
Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer.
Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree.
No two fruits are alike.
Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree.
So, it is the same Atman everywhere.
All creation is that.
There is beauty in the birds and in the animals. They too eat and drink like us, mate and multiply; but there is this difference:
we can realize our true nature, the Atman.
Having been born as human beings, we must not waste this opportunity.
At least for a few seconds every day,
we must enquire as to who we are.
It is no use taking a return ticket over and over again. From birth to death, and death to birth is samsara.
But really we have no birth and death.
We must realize that.
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