Wild Boars

There was a village that was attacked by wild boars.Everyday the wild boars would enter the village to rampage the whole village of their food. The villagers tried various means to fight and chase away the wild boars, but without much success.

One day a wise man approached the village headman to offer his advice. He told the villagers that they will have to follow all his advice and directions. Out of desperation, the villagers agreed. The wise man told the villagers to gather all the food from every household and put it in the middle of a big empty field. They followed his advice, and immediately they saw hundreds of wild boars approaching the vicinity where the food was placed. The wild boars were apprehensive initially, but after a while they went for the food.

Once the wild boars had a taste of the food they came back for the free food everyday. And everyday the villagers would put more food in the field and the wild boars would come to have their free meals. After a while, the wise man asked the villagers to erect four poles at the four-corners of the field.The wild boars were too busy having their food that they did not take notice of what was happening.

After a few weeks, the wild boars developed the habit of having free food. The wise man then asked the villagers to put fencing around the field, with a large gate through which the wild boars can enter to have their food. Finally once the fencing and the gate were completed the villagers closed the gate and all the wild boars were trapped inside the field. The wild boars were finally defeated!

Habits are easily developed but difficult to get rid of. The wild boars were trapped because out of their greed, they developed the habit of having free food, and without having to work for their food. They became so comfortable, that they did not realize they were being trapped. Most of us are like the wild boars because we become too comfortable with our jobs and businesses that we do not realize we are in one way or another being "trapped".
We seek security rather than freedom!

Quit Drinking

This particular joke won an award for the best joke competition Organized in Britain:

A man walks into a bar in London and ordered 3-glasses of beer and sits in the backyard of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.

When he finishes, he comes back to the bar counter and orders 3 more. The bartender asks him, "You know, beer goes flat after I fill it in the glass; it would taste better if you buy one at a time." The man replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Dubai, the other in Canada and I'm here in London. When they left home, we promised that we'll drink this way to remember the days when we drank together."

The bartender admits that this is a nice custom and leaves it there. The man became a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He order 3-Beers and drinks them in turn. One day, he came in and ordered only 2-Beers All the other regulars notice and fall silent.

When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my sincere condolences on your great loss."

The man looked confused for a moment, then he laughs.... "Oh, no," he, said, "Everyone's fine - both my brothers are alive". The only thing is I just quit drinking...!!!

SILVER PLATE

A Mom comes to visit her son for dinner…..who lives with a girl room-mate . During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty her son's room-mate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between her son and his room-mate than met the eye.

Reading his mom's thoughts, son volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, she and I are just room-mates." About a week later, the girl came! to the son saying, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver plate. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" he said ,"Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure."

So he sat down and wrote :

Dear Mother:

I'm not saying that you 'did' take the silver plate from my house, I'm not saying that you 'did not' take the silver plate .. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.
Love,
Your son

Several days later, he received an email from his Mother which read

Dear Son:
I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with your room-mate, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now under the pillow…

Love,
Mom.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE POOR

A rich parent, wishing that his son learns what it means to lack the luxury he lived in, sent him to stay with farmers on their farm.
The son spent  three days and three nights on the farm. Driving back to the city, the father enquired on his son's experiences, to which the son replied that his stay was a positive one.
Have you learnt anything, asked the father.

Oh yes, replied the son:

1 – We have one dog whilst they have four.
2 – We have a swimming pool as large as our garden and full of chemically treated water.  They have a river with crystal clear water, full of various types of fish and fauna .
3-  We use electricity to lit up our garden;  they have the moon and the stars to brighten up their fields.
4 – Our garden extends up to the boundary wall; their land up to the horizon.
5 – We buy our food; they grow it in their fields, harvest it and cook it.
6 – Our music comes from CDs; their lives are brightened  by a continuous symphony of  birds, crickets , animals and other sounds from nature ... And which, on occasion, is also accompanied by  the voices of neighbours working in the adjoining fields.
7 – That we use microwaves and other modern appliances, but our food lacks the flavour of their food, which is cooked on a slow burning fire.
8 – That to protect ourselves, we live behind walls and burglar alarms whilst they live with doors wide open and protected by their neighbours'  friendship.
9 – That our lives are dependent on mobile phones, computers, television and theirs enriched by life, the sun and the sky, the land and their livestock, their families.

The father was utterly stunned by his son's reflections. His son then added:
In a nutshell, thank you for showing me how poor we are!   Indeed,  with every passing day we tend to become poorer because we distance ourselves further from nature, God's greatest gift to mankind.
And we are more preoccupied with accumulating possessions and riches rather than enjoying this wonderful gift of nature and being thankful for being alive and well.
          HAVE  A GOOD DAY.                              

The Musings of the Mahatma Answers for our Times (Gandhi)

The Musings of the Mahatma Answers for our Times.

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
• God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
• I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
• To give service to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.