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Why do we look outside? Because it is lighter. It is easier. It
is easier to see things and other people than our own selves.
So we search these things and these other people for the
keys to our happiness. But, although the light is there, the
needle is not.
We must go inward, even though it seems dark and even
though it seems that we may never find anything. We must
have faith and start searching. Meditation, prayer, faith in
God, a spiritual practice, a Guru, introspection, silence –
these are all things that light the way for us to look inward,
to find that needle.
Our candle may be dim at first, it might be hard to see.
But slowly that candle will get brighter and brighter, and
we will eventually find the needle which we lost. However,
the longer we search outside, the longer our needle
will remain lost.
I pray that you all may turn inward. I don’t mean that you
should ignore your family and friends or not to buy gifts
for your children. Rather, as you enjoy the time with your
family and as you enjoy the gifts you receive, please remember
that nowhere - other than within your own heart
- lies the true answer to your happiness. Love your family
without expectation. Enjoy the material gifts without expectation.
Enjoy the vacation without expectation. When
we expect these external things, people and places to bring
us the ultimate bliss in life, that is when we will be disappointed.
When we love and appreciate them as they are,
but turn inward and to God for the true bliss, that is when
we will be satisfied both externally and internally.
THE SAINT AND THE SCORPION -
WHAT IS OUR DHARMA?
Once there was a sadhu, a renunciant living on the banks
of a river, performing his sadhana with great piety and
determination.
One day as the holy man went for his bath in the river, he
noticed a scorpion struggling in the water. Scorpions, by
nature, cannot swim and the sadhu knew that if he did not
save the scorpion, it would drown. Therefore, carefully
picking up the scorpion, the saint lifted it out of the waters
and was just about to set it down gently on the land
when the scorpion stung his finger. In pain, the sadhu instinctively
flung his hand and the scorpion went flying, back
into the river.
As soon as the sadhu regained his composure from the sting,
he again lifted the drowning scorpion out of the water.
Again, before he could set the scorpion safely on land, the
creature stung him. Again, as the sadhu shook his hand in
response to the pain, the scorpion fell back into the water.
This exchange went on for several minutes as the holy
man continued to try to save the life of the drowning scorpion
and the scorpion continued to sting his savior’s hand
before reaching the freedom of the river bank.
A man, who had been out hunting in the forest, noticed
this interaction between the holy man and the scorpion.
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