Monday 11 August 2014

There was once a poverty-stricken woodsman who dreamed of riches night and day.  He had no other thought in his mind but wealth and how to acquire it.  As he sat in the woods one day, tormented by this obsession, a wandering yogin called out to him:
Hey, woodcutter!  What is to be gained by desire?
Desire is like the son of a barren woman 
— so cast it out from your mind!
Visualise your body as the heavens
And your thoughts as stars in the sky.
Then the God of Wealth himself will appear
And all your desires will be fulfilled
In the vast expanse of non-grasping ...






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