42. A house on fire🔗

Please understand, this is a basic truth: whatever you see and experience is because of your thought patterns. Whatever you see in the outer world - whether it is your health, body, mind, world, relationships - everything is because of your thought patterns. Everything is just your thought patterns! Let me tell you this one small story about how our life experiences are changed just by our thought patterns.

Once an old villager traveled to a nearby village for some work. On his way back, he saw from a distance that his house was on fire. He started rolling on the ground and crying, 'My house, my house is gone!'

Hearing the noise, his first son came running and said, 'Father, don't worry. Don't you remember, you sold that house just two days back? The villager suddenly stood up and wiped his tears, 'Oh yes, yes, yes! I remember!' He was completely relaxed. Suddenly his second son ran towards him and said, 'Father, it is true we sold the house, but we still have not got the payment!' Again the villager fell down and started rolling on the ground, 'Oh, my house is on fire, is there nobody to save it?' He started calling out to all the gods. In India that is the only 911!

Within a few minutes, his third son arrived, saying, 'Don't worry father, just this morning I received the payment and deposited it in the bank. The others don't know about it yet. So it is not our house anymore.' Then immediately the villager sat up again, smiling, 'Thank God, everything is okay! Everything is okay.'

Please understand: the same situation, the same person - one moment he is feeling the deep suffering, but the next moment, he is completely relaxed. Just see how your thought patterns can influence your response even to critical situations! Without your knowledge, your life is being run by your thought patterns.