When you meet the Buddha, what do you ask him?
People pray to God, to the prophets, and to Buddha. They ask for this, they wish for that, they ask for that!
In the course of time the wishes change.
Just quickly bought at Amazon the so longed-for new toy (which one had to have absolutely), and already one wishes for something else.
I wish for a beautiful wife, a nice man, a great job, health, happiness, success, whatever.
As soon as I have achieved something, I want or desire something new. Constantly we want something, always more, and always we become more dissatisfied when we don't get it again.
And even when I do get it, I want something else, we are never satisfied, and the dissatisfaction is "pre-programmed", so to speak.
What if I would get the chance to meet Buddha personally, to ask him something? What do I really want to know, what question is close to my heart? Or what wish?
If we ask a question again and again, deal with it intensively, illuminate it, weigh the pros and cons, perhaps ask the question itself a little differently, we then realize that the question already contains the answer.
It is the same with our desires. If we have a really big wish, imagine this wish again and again in our mind, question the wish itself again and again, then we will also find a way to get this wish fulfilled.
BUT WHAT IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, WHAT IS AN IMPORTANT WISH?
What is important in our lives at all, do we know? Or do we just let ourselves be driven by momentary needs and whims? Are we capable of really important insights at all?
Let's play through this thought for a moment! You imagine a question that you would ask Buddha. Just for yourself, you don't have to tell anyone about it.
WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE? WHAT?
I know what I personally would ask Buddha. Every day I rethink the question, formulate it a little differently, imagine how I would deal with his answer, whether it would perhaps astonish or frighten me.
And anyway, a clear question ALWAYS already contains the answer.
And a clearly thought-out wish shows the way to fulfillment.
THE DESIRE TO APPEAR WISE AND CAPABLE OFTEN PREVENTS US FROM BECOMING SO.
- FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD - POLITICALLY ACTIVE FRENCH NOBLEMAN - 1613 TO 1680
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