Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Mind over matter

Two travellers in Tibet were trudging a long distance on foot.
When they beheld a flag waving in the wind.
It was a red triangular flag with a circular hole in it.
One traveller-look the flag is moving
Other traveller-what a sucker. Its not the flag but the wind thats moving.
And so they argued with no end.
Fortunately a Buddhist monk was passing that way.
So they saw a way out of their predicament.
They approached the monk and apprised him with the crux of their argument.
The monk with a wicked smile playing on his lips addressed them and said mercilessly-Oh my poor men its neither the flag or the wind thats moving but its the mind thats moving.

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