Mehfil

Keep relationship with soil,

A little sweetness in talk.

No matter how old you grow,

Keep old age away from mind.

There will be fun in life,

Should you have an attachment in mind.

Criticize you may others,

But do keep a mirror in front.

Should you take someone’s help in life,

Be indebted too for life.

Should you achieve something,

Consider it a game of destiny,

Leave aside arrogance.

SOURCE UNKNOWN

Das Laecheln

Ein Laecheln, kaum geboren,

flog aengslich flatternd hin und her;

jedoch, der es verloren,

den fand es nimmermehr.

Es setzte sich verstohlen

auf einen Mund, doch der befahl:

“”Der Teufel soll dich holen!”-

und wurde hart und schmal.

Das Laecheln irrte weiter,

bis es zu einem Narren kam,

der es erstaunt und heiter

auf seine Lippen nahm.

Der Narr,der es erworben

und laechelte, auch wenn er litt,

ist leider laengst gestorben

und nahm das Laecheln mit….

FRIDOLIN TSCHUDI

A Zen Story

A monk goes to a palace and asks the guard:’ Can I spend a night in this dormitory? Is there some space available?”

An angry guard shouts:” Aren’t you ashamed calling this palace, a dormitory?’

The monk says,:”Brother, when I came here, some decades ago, there was someone who stayed here. A few years later, someone else was there. To-day both of them are gone and a third occupant has moved in.A place, where the occupants keep changing, what else is it but a dormitory?”

Man forgets to LIVE his life trying to build his favorite house, and then , what he had thought would be his permanent address,, vacates the place as if it were a dormitory! There is really no end to a man’s stupidity.

To build a favorite house, we spend our lifetime, and often our children do not need it, or it is a bone of contention or it is sold and in the end only its ruins remain!

Look at the nature of the man. What sort of infatuation is this?

A man’s life on this earth is on lease for a limited period and you cannot appeal in any court and yet this infatuation to have a PERMANENT ADDRESS?!!

Don’t you feel like laughing when filling up a form, you are asked to give your PERMANENT ADDRESS!!

FROM A NEWSPAPER