One day, a young boy came into the monastery and asked the Chief Monk, to give him some work and also food.<\/p>\n
The Chief Monk asked him: What have you read? What work can you do? What do you know?<\/p>\n
The boy replied: I have not read in school. I have no proficiency in any work excepting some stray jobs like washing food plates, cleaning up the cottage etc., I do not know anything else.<\/p>\n
The Chief Monk asked Are you sure you do not know anything else?<\/p>\n
The young boy replied: Oh, yes, Sir, now I remember.<\/p>\n
I can play good Chess<\/p>\n
The Chief Monk said: Oh that’s good. Now I shall test you in your game.
\nHe asked another monk to come with chess board and coins and asked a table to be placed so that the game could start.<\/p>\n
Before start of the game, the Chief Monk said: Now see, I have a sword on my hand. If any one is defeated, his nose will be severed<\/p>\n
The boy became nervous. However, without any other way to go, he agreed.<\/p>\n
The game started. Initially, the boy made some mistakes in moves. His position on the board became almost hopeless.<\/p>\n
He then concentrated completely on the game and improved the position to a winning level.<\/p>\n
Then he looked at the monk sitting opposite and playing. He was not quite nervous but obviously disturbed a little.<\/p>\n
The boy then thought, “I am a useless fellow in life. Nothing will change the world if I lose the game and lose my nose”.<\/p>\n
But this monk, is well read person, doing meditation and is sure to attain Buddha Hood Why should he lose?<\/p>\n
So the young boy deliberately made a wrong move, so that the monk sitting opposite could take advantage and win the game !<\/p>\n
The Chief Monk suddenly flashed his sword on the table. All the coins flew into different directions.<\/p>\n
He then said: The game is over. Oh boy you are IN. You will be with us in the monastery hereafter.<\/p>\n
The boy did not understand.<\/p>\n
The Chief Monk explained: “I did not ask you to play chess to find out your caliber in the game. But I was looking for two essential qualities that are necessary for Self realization.”<\/p>\n
One is Maha Prajna. The Great Awareness. I found that in you. When your game became positionally bad, you put your entire concentration and attention on the game and improved your game.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This is Maha Prajna.<\/p>\n The second is Maha Karuna – The Great Compassion. I found that also in you. When your opponent was about to lose the game, you looked at him with great compassion and deliberately made a wrong move so that he could win.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n These two qualities are adequate to do sadhana and make the life Meaningful. YOU ARE IN.<\/p>\n Life isn\u2019t about winning or losing there is nothing to win and nothing to lose.<\/p>\n You can at best enjoy or suffer your limited time called Life but enjoyment or suffering is also only a figment of your imagination.<\/p>\n Going beyond enjoyment, suffering, winning or losing is the path that few choose to walk.<\/p>\n Win or Lose… let us have a great life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Collection from various medias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One day, a young boy came into the monastery and asked the Chief Monk, to give him some work and also food. The Chief Monk asked him: What have you… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aikya-story-time","category-featured","category-spiritual"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/walk-in-the-forest-warm-light-sun-is-shining-matthias-hauser.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikya-oneness.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}