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[saurabhjain]

Do you bathe when you bathe?

EVERYDAY,         early in the morning, a Zen Master asked his disciples: How many of you have bathed this morning? Almost all the disciples raise their hands dutifully. Next Question: How many of you are aware you bathed when you did?


Not a single hand was raised.


Bathing is an act. Bathing with complete awareness that you are bathing is different. Today surely all of you must have bathed and all of you must have brushed your teeth. How many of you must have bathed and all of you must have brushed your teeth. How many of you were aware of what you were doing when you did that?


When you brush your teeth how many of you were aware that you were brushing your teeth? When you bathed how many of you were aware of the hot water on your body? Were you aware that your body was just getting ready after the bath, and your life was getting rejuvenated after the bath? How many of you were aware of all these things when they happened?


A small Zen Story:


A king went to the Master, and asked: ‘Master how can I become enlightened? Tell me about all practices you do. What did you do to become enlightened? Please teach me’.


The king could not understand. The Master explained: ‘When I eat I only eat, I don’t do anything else when I sleep I only sleep I do not do anything else’.


But what do we do? Recall how you eat. You will remember that you were watching television or reading a magazine when you were eating. Or it could be that you were talking to someone or continuously thinking of something. If you were calm, sitting quietly and eating with your wife would have been there to report some problems in the house.


So in one way or another, when you eat, your mind does everything else but focus on the food and eating. You do everything except eat.


You treat food with such scant respect. It is just a form of garbage that is stuffed through your mouth. That is why the food treats you like a garbage bag. It withholds its energy unless you become aware of what you eat. If you treat your food with respect and are aware of what you eat, wellness results.


This is true even when you sleep! When you sleep you do everything else except sleeping. Because, only when you sleep you dream, you have your nightmare and fear strokes. You then have disturbed sleep.


Catch yourself in the act. Become aware. That will set your inner transformation into motion.

[Silence]

Ek samay me sirf ek kam
the great philosophy of lord mahaveer

[mahendra]

yes very good mail to be followed with little practice it is easy & e'1 can do it but we never try anythings seriously in life & human wants changes in all things every moments & hence most of us r failures & only mahatmas become fews.
Bhagwan Sri Mahaveer said one thing at a time is different then just keeping our consciousness in what we r doing i.e onl;y seeing & observing the only things any ATMA has to do nothing else in life by ATMA the other things r done by pudgal,ahankar,budhi,cheet,pura bhav karma etc only discharging them.
Bhagwan Sri Mahaveer i think was mentioning one thing at a time might be for one paryay only for one samay as in the same samay 2 paryay cant be there tht is is i think i might be wrong also so some learned ppl should throw more real clear light on this pl