What is your "air"?

A monk is meditating by a river, and one young man approached him and said,

"Master, I would like to become your student"

The monk asked, "Why?"

“Because I want to find Jesus”, replied the young man.

Suddenly, the monk jumped on the young man and dipped his head into the river and held his head there for a few minutes, ignoring the struggling from the young man. Finally, the monk pulls the young man’s head out from the river to the shore. The young man coughed and breathed heavily as he almost died. When he became more stable, the master asked, “Tell me what was the most important thing that you wanted when you were under the water"

"The air,” replied the young man

“Very well," the master said. “Go home and come back to me when you really want to find Jesus at the same moment that you gasp for air".

 Srila Prabhupada explains: “to be mad about something is the price to get to the successful and to realize the Krishna religion". Everything has its own price, and people have to pay its price before they get it and keep it. In Buddhism, sutras (Kinh Ve Da) point out this" to go after the most precious thing, people have to build themselves the thirst after that precious thing, so they can reach that goal".

If we want to reach our goal at the end of our life, we have to continue to yearn for and do not stop thirsting after all the things that we are mad about, which will guide us where we want to be.

 

Source: Translated from Butchi and the WordPress