Die Empty

 

The most beautiful book to read is "Die Empty" by Todd Henry. The author was inspired and got this idea of writing ​​this book while attending a business meeting. When director asked audience: "Where is the richest land in the world?" One out of audience answered: "Oil-rich Gulf states." 

Another said: "Diamond mines of Africa."

Then the director said: "No it is the Cemetery. Yes, it is the richest land in the world, as millions of people have died and they carried many valuable ideas that did not come to limelight nor benefit others. It is all in the cemetery where they are buried."

Inspired by this answer, Todd Henry wrote his book, "Die empty" where he did his best to motivate people to pour out their ideas and potential energies for their communities and turn them into something useful before it is too late.

The most beautiful of what he said in his book is: "Do not go to your grave and carry inside you the best that you have. Always choose to die empty."

The TRUE meaning of this expression, is to die empty of all the goodness and kindness that is within you. Deliver it to the world, before you leave.

If you have an idea perform it. If you have knowledge give it out. Be kind to all, humans, animals, plants and earth in which you will be buried.

Spread Love, share it and distribute it, do not keep it inside.Let’s begin to give. Transfer, shift and spread every atom of inside us.

Start the race.Let us Die Empty!

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Put the Glass Down

This is an interesting video as to explain how stress affects us. The gist of video is that the amount of stress we encounter is directly proportional to the time we think about any situation.

Source :- instagram

Mustard Seed

During Buddha’s time, there lived a woman named Kisa Gotami. She married young and gave birth to a son. One day, the baby fell sick and died soon after. Kisa Gotami loved her son greatly and refused to believe that her son was dead. She carried the body of her son around her village, asking if there was anyone who can bring her son back to life.

The villagers all saw that the son was already dead and there was nothing that could be done. They advised her to accept his death and make arrangements for the funeral.

In great grief, she fell upon her knees and clutched her son’s body close to her body. She kept uttering for her son to wake up. A village elder took pity on her and suggested to her to consult the Buddha.

“Kisa Gotami. We cannot help you. But you should go to the Buddha. Maybe he can bring your son back to life!”. She immediately went to the Buddha’s residence and pleaded for him to bring her son back to life.

“Kisa Gotami, I have a way to bring your son back to life.”

“My Lord, I will do anything to bring my son back”

“If that is the case, then I need you to find me something. Bring me a mustard seed but it must be taken from a house where no one residing in the house has ever lost a family member. Bring this seed back to me and your son will come back to life.”

Kisa Gotami went from house to house, trying to find the mustard seed. At the first house, a young woman offered to give her some mustard seeds. But when Kisa Gotami asked if she had ever lost a family member to death, the young women said her grandmother died a few months ago.

She moved on to the 2nd house. A husband died a few years. The 3rd house lost an uncle and the 4th house lost an aunt. She kept moving from house to house but the answer was all the same – every house had lost a family member to death.

Kisa Gotami finally came to realise that there is no one in the world who had never lost a family member to death. She now understood that death is inevitable and a natural part of life. Putting aside her grief, she buried her son in the forest. Shen then returned to the Buddha and became his follower.

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Master Shifu

Hi all, today I present you with this wonderful quote by Master Shifu from the movie Kung fu Panda 3. In one scene Master Shifu told Po to teach a Master's Class and Po was so against it saying things like, "Who me?", "I can't do that" and so forth and so on. However, he went ahead and followed Master Shifu orders. Of course he failed miserably at teaching the class. Later he found out that Master Shifu KNEW he couldn't teach the class and it hurt his feelings because he felt he was being set up to fail. Then the "Ah Ha" moment came. Master Shifu replied, "If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now." How often have we closed the door of an opportunity because we felt we couldn't do it? With current uncertain conditions and people feeling like they are stuck inside their own homes when world is under the Grip of a deadly Pandemic, consider doing something you feel you "can't do". Try a new thing, develop a new skill, adopt a new hobby. Growth takes place outside of the box and outside of our comfort zones. Greatness already resides in you. PUSH THROUGH to manifest it!!!! Remember you have the POWER to CREATE each day INTENTIONALLY GOOD and to Be Beautifully Inspired!

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Story Source :- schanellis

Socrates and The Oracle of Delphi

For today, enjoy an interesting story dating back centuries. It talks about Socrates, his thinking and why he's known to be one of the wisest man in history.

After his service in the war, Socrates devoted himself to his favorite pastime: the pursuit of truth.

His reputation as a philosopher, literally meaning 'a lover of wisdom', soon spread all over Athens and beyond. When told that the Oracle of Delphi had revealed to one of his friends that Socrates was the wisest man in Athens, he responded not by boasting or celebrating, but by trying to prove the Oracle wrong.

So Socrates decided he would try and find out if anyone knew what was truly worthwhile in life, because anyone who knew that would surely be wiser than him. He set about questioning everyone he could find, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer. Instead they all pretended to know something they clearly did not.

Finally he realized the Oracle might be right after all. He was the wisest man in Athens because he alone was prepared to admit his own ignorance rather than pretend to know something he did not.

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Story Source : pbs 

Clay Buddha

It was 1957 in Thailand. In the process of relocating a Buddhist monastery, a group of monks were appointed to move the giant clay Buddha that resided within.

The monks started to push the huge statue, but soon noticed a crack down one side. They decided to wait until the next day to continue with the job. By then, maybe they could think of a way to move the precious cargo without damage.

That night, however, a curious monk returned to examine the clay Buddha. He shined light close to the crack. To his astonishment, he saw something glitter.

Quickly, the monk grabbed a hammer and chisel, and chipped away at the clay. Hours later, he finished his chipping and stood back in awe. He could hardly believe his eyes. Standing before him was a huge, solid gold Buddha!

It was later discovered that several centuries before, while the Burmese army was advancing on the area, Thai monks had concealed the Buddha in clay to keep it from being stolen. During the attack, however, all the monks were killed, so the true nature of the treasure lay in secret until 1957.

You and I resemble the golden Buddha. We often conceal our true brilliance with protective clay shells. We use social masks, boisterous masks, impatient masks, tough masks, insensitive masks, even masks of false humor and enthusiasm, to hide who we really are. Disguising our feelings of inadequacy, these masks also shield us from the outside world - a world we may perceive as overwhelming, uncomfortable, or simply tiresome.

Once we become aware of these masks, we can chip away at the clay and toss the pieces behind us. Only then can we reveal who we really are; caring and sucessful beings on the road to achieving our dreams!

Source :- Toni Turner (chapter 1)
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Our Problems - Like a Cocoon

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.

Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily.

But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened!

In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.

It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

And we could never fly!!.

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Hope you enjoyed this small and yet powerful story.I'm back after almost 2 years. Feels good to be back. See you guys soon. :)