Live in the N@w
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There was once a king who ruled over a big country. Yet he was unhappy because his son, the prince, acted as he pleased and did not care about what the king expected of him. The prince was a wanderer who wouldn't change his habits even though the king warned him many times.
One day the king lost his patience and decided to teach his son a lesson. He told the prince, "Leave this country! Go out and stay somewhere else for ten years. If you are able to maintain yourself for ten years, then I might take you back."
The prince left the kingdom. Now, the prince could sing, dance and enjoy but he didn't know much of anything else. So he went around begging from house to house, door to door.
Ten years passed this way.
Finally the King said to himself, “Now it is time to send people out to search for my son. We need to find out if he has managed to survive and what he is doing.”
He sent his people out on the search for the prince.
One of the ministers in the search
party found the prince begging
by the roadside.
The minister went to the beggar,
touched his feet and said, “Sir! Do
you remember us? You are the
prince of our country. The King
wants you to return. The citizens
want you to come back. Please
come.”
The moment the minister touched his feet, the beggar's whole body language changed. Until that moment he had been a beggar, looking and acting as one.
When the minister touched his feet in respect, he rose to his status and became the prince once more saying, "Oh! Is that so? All right. Go along then and get my chariot. I will return!"
The prince's voice and tone was a reflection of his mental state. He climbed into the chariot and rode majestically back to the palace.
His mental setup was now exactly the opposite of his beggarly state. His lifestyle, his body language, his mentality, everything was as it had been when he was living as a prince in the palace. It only took an instant for his mental setup to change.
The prince had been a beggar for ten years. Still, he didn't ask the minister, "'How can I change? How can I drop my past? How can I change my mental setup?"
The prince was able to spontaneously adapt to the situation and effortlessly change from a prince to a beggar and back to a prince.
The energy of the Master's
very Presence can be enough
to remind us of our true nature.
We need to only drop the ideas
of who we think we are
and relax into the very experience.
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LANMETPUETS
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