I'm just dropping in to share one analogy I learnt from Ajahn Brahm; one like those other things which seem to have found their places in our hearts, sometimes. Here is how I'd like to tell it (AND how my poor memory remembered it!) :
Ask any tadpole about water. 'What is water, do you know, o' lil' one?'
Isn't it obvious tadpoles live in water, the H2O we learnt in highschool? Bah, stupid tadpole, don't you know.."water"?!
The lil' one will turn to its friends and shrug. The tadpoles are all clueless of what they have been surrounded with throughout their tadpole lives!
But just you be patient and wait, said the determined lil' tadpole. I'll find out what it means!
And truth betold, that tadpole grew into a frog and is finally free to leap out of what it has been surrounded for all its life.
As the tadpole sat on land by the water, he looked down at what he emerged from.
Aha! So THAT is 'water'!
Doesn't this analogy sound familiar to you? We have been surrounded by 'life' for all our lives, just as the tadpole by 'water'. Think about it. I just find this analogy really fascinating and really eye-opening. Ask any tadpole!
Ask any tadpole about water. 'What is water, do you know, o' lil' one?'
Isn't it obvious tadpoles live in water, the H2O we learnt in highschool? Bah, stupid tadpole, don't you know.."water"?!
The lil' one will turn to its friends and shrug. The tadpoles are all clueless of what they have been surrounded with throughout their tadpole lives!
But just you be patient and wait, said the determined lil' tadpole. I'll find out what it means!
And truth betold, that tadpole grew into a frog and is finally free to leap out of what it has been surrounded for all its life.
As the tadpole sat on land by the water, he looked down at what he emerged from.
Aha! So THAT is 'water'!
Doesn't this analogy sound familiar to you? We have been surrounded by 'life' for all our lives, just as the tadpole by 'water'. Think about it. I just find this analogy really fascinating and really eye-opening. Ask any tadpole!
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