Whether you live as a «naugad» or whether it will be full of inner joy and happiness – it depends only on you. you have to make your own choices and decide what will happen in your life and affairs.
I’m sure you’ve seen a micrometer at least once. it’s a very melodious name for a very simple instrument. A micrometer is a device that can measure very small distances with an accuracy of one-thousandth of an inch (2.54 cm). When I first saw a micrometer, I asked myself, «Why on earth do you need to measure such small distances?» But then I read about a building that collapsed, killing many people and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. An investigation into the accident revealed that it was caused by a calculation error of a thousandth of an inch. As a result of temperature fluctuations and errors of thousandths of an inch, the building collapsed, killing many people.
Such a narrow margin, such a small distance between stability and disaster! I wonder how it looks like in our life. sometimes there is a very narrow line between winning and losing. We all know of people who have worked for years to achieve their goals, and when they get close to achieving their goals, they lose faith, hope, and strength, stop everything, and say, «I’m defeated.»
Henry wrote a wonderful poem that beautifully illustrates these points:
The difference between defeat and victory is so small that people unfortunately do not know how to take it…
Giving up does not mean giving up. There is only one step between defeat and victory, and only our perseverance allows us to pass through the thousandth of an inch with ease and ease. Another thing is that apparent defeat turns into real success.
Yes, brethren, a micrometer measures distances of one-thousandth of an inch, and you may be making the greatest success of one-thousandth of an inch at this very moment. It requires more research and work. The distance between Victory and Defeat is like between Ekinti and Aksham.
Pomegranate is one of my favorite fruits. It is also called «Indian apple». One of my favorite things to do as a child was to go to the grocery store and buy pomegranates, which I thought were very healthy.
This wonderful fruit has one interesting feature. Although the seeds are tasty, juicy and sweet, they have a very bitter taste, and are separated into small clusters with thin yellow flesh. If you try to bite into a pomegranate, you will get a piece of bitterness instead of pleasure.
However, if you eat your own pomegranate from a single seed, it is a real delicacy. That’s how it is in life. You can’t live life in one fell swoop – you can live it day by day. If you get a cut, the cut won’t heal for a second. Your recovery begins the moment you cut yourself and continues every day, every minute. You can’t learn all at once – one school day followed by another.
Losing a loved one in one day is impossible to overcome. Getting over a loss is a long-term process, and if you learn to live anew each day, you will survive the loss and start a new life.
So the simple truth is that life cannot be lived in one moment. you live day by day, which means you need patience and diligence in building a life. If you have a broken arm, try to move it a little today. if you are sick, try to feel a little better today. tell yourself that today you have moved a little further, and gradually everything you want in your life will come true and will never end (resurrection).
If you face a big problem today, don’t try to solve it in one day. try to find the root cause today and you will be much closer to solving the overall problem. If you look at all your problems at once, life may seem very difficult to you. if you have sick children to take care of or elderly/sick parents and other responsibilities that require responsibility, then life may feel like you are living in hell. basically everything is the opposite. you are in the paradise of life right now, even if it doesn’t feel like it.
But you don’t have to deal with all of life’s problems at once. you just have to deal with today’s problems. I can leave you with one simple thought to help you: «To live by running is punishment, but to live by walking is happiness.» It is not necessary to solve all the problems of life at once, but only the problems of today. You just have to face the challenge of the moment.
Do you like lobster? Most people in England love lobster. Do you know how these crabs are caught? They catch the scorpion with a very simple device that allows it to easily enter, and then the scorpion cannot get out. There are many such traps in our life.
We humans often face life’s problems without even thinking about them and what a heavy burden they put on us. Most of us are ready to put our signature on any page without thinking. It’s getting easier to fool us these days.
I believe that a big reason for family discord and people being stockpile is the refusal to think about responsibility. This applies to all aspects of our life: loans, signing documents, any contracts. Many people like to follow the crowd. They become puppets for others and are easily deceived.
It’s easy to sign, easy to fall into a trap, easy to say yes, easy to promise – but then it’s very difficult to follow through, to pay, and it takes a lot of stress and regret. responsibility is easy to accept but hard to keep, and sometimes we find that the confidence we gain from fulfilling that responsibility turns into stress. we follow the crowd rather than in front of it, follow fashion, trends, stereotypes, fixed ideas, obey our personal pride and make short-sighted, quick decisions to keep up with others. we must at any rate seek to satisfy our desires, and in the days to come, the coming of the day of repayment, and the desire to repay the payment required of us. the responsibility, the energy expended, the time expended – everything we have to pay must be weighed carefully.
We must avoid dubious responsibility. you need to look carefully at your life, consider all responsibilities reasonably and do not rush to sign your name or fall into a scorpion’s trap. Responsibilities are easy to assume, difficult to fulfill, and sometimes impossible to avoid. guidance or punishment? once when the great gautama buddha (the founder of buddhism) was teaching people in a small village, he took out a brown pebble from his robe and said, «Here is my teacher!» said. He then explained that he was walking along the road that day and didn’t notice the beauty of the world around him until a small pebble landed on his sandal. He had to stop on the road and take it down, so that he suddenly saw the blue sky, the beauty of the trees, smelled the flowers growing along the road, and even saw the bright colors on the wings of a butterfly. «I passed by the beauty but didn’t notice until this little pebble stopped me,» he said. Unfortunately, this is true, and we learn more easily through punishment than instruction. As we journey through life, two paths are always open to us: the path of free choice and the path of compulsion. We can consciously choose to cooperate with the Universal Mind. We can choose to evolve, to improve, to change for the better. But if we do not choose it ourselves, then it is forced upon us. We obey the «law of progressive motion». If we don’t choose to grow, we force it through practice lessons, and as some know, practice (testing) can be a very harsh teacher.
Many people believe that there is a struggle between the forces of good and evil in the world. There is no evidence in the world of two forces colliding. then what is the cause of human suffering and panic? its reason is a misunderstanding of the truth. when man’s understanding rises to new heights, his world rises from chaos and destruction.