Monday, August 29, 2011

GRABBING MONKEYS

An interesting method is employed to arrest marauding monkeys who invade homes. A box with nuts is used to lure the monkeys. However the opening at the top is just big enough for the monkey’s hand to slide in. The lured monkey grabs the nuts and forms a fist which cannot pass through the small opening. The monkey has a choice to let go of the nuts and escape. However it continues to hang on to the nuts.

The monkey gets captured because of its greediness. So often, we behave like the monkey. We grab beyond our need. We grab without bothering of the implications of choices fuelled by greed. The lure of grabbing blinds us from the consequences of such actions. We hang on to what we grab, even if it results in our freedom being compromised.

We also hold on to old things and ideas that can no longer help us to succeed. We fear the vagaries that the future may bring and so we refuse to change. We are comfortable with where we are and what we have, so we prefer to be held hostage there.

To be better at being unfettered in life we have to hold on to the choice of letting go of the unnecessary greed. Even genuine needs should be filtered across the sieve of imagining implications. Real success does not come by grabbing possessions... it is realised by securing liberation from unreasonable greed that blinds and eventually binds us in a bind!

To be truly free, do not grab more
Learn to BE BETTER at letting go!


- Pravin K. Sabnis

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