4 / LEARNING TO FLY /🔗

This is a modern fable!

After World War I, a biplane was found abandoned near a remote tribal settlement in Asia.

Never having seen an aircraft up close earlier, the tribal folk assumed that it must be some strange sort of bullock cart - which was all they had seen on wheels. News spread in the village about the new bullock cart. The biplane was proudly taken around the settlement yoked to bullocks, and people came to see and admire it.

Some weeks later, one intelligent young tribal lad who had returned from a trip to civilization, inferred that all those buttons and switches on the display panel must have some purpose. So he fiddled around with them till he got the biplane to taxi around a bit. This amazed the tribals - the bullock cart could move around on its own! The young lad, who had seen tractors at work in the faraway villages, declared that this was no bullock cart, but a tractor! The bewildered tribal folk agreed, and the biplane began to be used as such. (Quite an inconvenient tractor, it must have been!)

But it took a war veteran, stumbling upon the settlement many months later, to rev up the engine, operate the gears and fly the biplane right up into the sky, fulfilling the purpose for which it was made.

! This is the story of your life! Most of us treat our life, our potential, like a bullock cart. Some use it like a tractor. But how many of us can transform it into an aircraft? The power to fly is there within you, but can lie latent forever unless you learn how to operate the gears. These ‘gears’ are the meditation techniques I teach you, to lift you from the lowest plane to the highest. It doesn’t matter which technique you use, as long as it gets you flying! !