I had the opportunity to listen to one great monk, and Indian I guess from his ascent, it wasn't that hard to figure out, just as easy as you think and he said something that got me and well I thought maybe I should share.
He held 3 cups up, one a steel cup, a glass cup and finally a silver cup and had juice poured into all three and tasted them and was quite delighted with the outcome from what I saw though. And guess what he said.
They all taste the same.
And that really stung me and he went on and on about other stuffs but I was particularly impressed by that single statement. The Taste is the same so basically the quality of the container did not reflect on the resulting drink.
How does that apply to Me and maybe You? I hope you can get the drift from here?
We are the cup and the drink of course, we are majorly the substance in the cup and what is in the cup is what people will feel right? So even you drink water off a calabash or you do it from a golden cup. In the end it is all water and will taste the same.
What we are trying to say is this.
Life is not just the container but much more that substance.
What is this container?
We often tell ourselves the biggest if lies and drive ourselves almost insane in a quest to meet some target but truth be told, who set the target? Why?
We all love to look cute in a car, a posh house and the best of things life has to offer and all these serve as a container to the drink, the life we are carrying but we have all derailed fro our fucos which is suppose to make people feel the taste of us but we are too busy with the container that we miss the message we are suppose to send.
There is also a fallacious statement that.
Once am able to get some of these I will be good, a car, a house and all those stuffs thinking it adds value to us.
Like Joseph Cliford Harris also known as T.I ones said.
Respect is something you'd never get if you never had it.
True as that sounds we ignore it. And concentrate on the body carrying a much bigger purpose to impact and change lives but we are wrapped up in our lives and materialism that we loose sight of what is important.
Like the juice in the container we are to bring pleasure to those who taste us, weather in their good or bad time Just give out pleasure.
The juice ain't gon say today am not in a good mood so no pleassure or am done with these people let me do something for me because in the end the cup does not matter.
What matters is what the cup carries.
