Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch
There is a very beautiful quote by a Zen Master to his disciples: “Water is water, tree are trees and mountains are mountains.” It suggests, just see, ‘What’ is ‘What’. Following this, truly, you will getting the essence of life. It teaches you how to live in the present and live the life at its fullest. There is nothing in the past, nor in the future. Whatever is, is just right now, never ‘was’ & never ‘will be’. In our life, what we do is that, we look at the things how we want to see them, not how they are in actual exactly. We see ‘well’, ‘pond’, ‘river’, ‘sea’ but not the ‘Water’. On the same track, I would like to say, ‘Eggs are eggs & Chickens are chickens’. Future is unpredictable though we take support of astrology. It is just the result of your ‘doings’ in the present. Shree Krishna in Bhagwadgeeta guides on the theory of Karma. Whatever the Karma you do, it will be fruited in the future. Here he utters, “Karmannevadhikarasate, Ma Faleshu Kadachana.” ...