28. Grazing an invisible cow
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Two fellows are sitting and having a friendly chat outside a tea shop in a remote Indian village. One fellow says, 'If I win a lottery, I will buy plenty of cows, bulls and buffaloes!' The other fellow says, 'I will buy 1000 acres of land.' Then he asks the first fellow, 'How will you feed your cows? Why don't you buy some land first?' The first fellow says, 'I don't need to buy land, because I can graze my cows on your land.' The second fellow gets furious and picks a fight with him. Both of them start fighting! They neither have any money, nor are they doing anything to get it. It is all just ifs and buts.
This is the exact way you talk inside your head! You don't even need another person to fight with! Just your own mind is enough. Unfortunately, your mind does not want to live with solutions. Unless there are constantly unsolved problems, you don't feel life is moving! I tell you: if you can learn to think without the words 'if' and 'but' in your inner space for just 11 days, you will experience honesty, you will experience authenticity.