Mountain of Enlightenment

Climbing the Mountain of Enlightenment an Inspirational and Motivational Short Moral Story

Climbing the mountain of enlightenment short original moral story

An old man begins a long and steady climb up to the top of a mountain. The path is rough as not many take the route he has chosen. It is muddy and in places slippery underfoot with many jagged rocks and thorny bushes he must negotiate along the way. It is raining heavily and the clouds have descended all around him making his journey seem even tougher. His thinking is fast and one of constant complaining, causing him much suffering as he goes.

As he slowly climbs he mutters under his breath with every step. His words are harsh and cruel to himself but he continues onwards. The rain doesn’t let up and the clouds seem even thicker as he keeps to the chosen path.

On more then one occasion his mind tells him to give up, on more than one occasion he feels it is hopeless and believes that the journey isn’t worth it. But he pushes on despite he constant complaining.

As he progresses his thoughts begin to slow and his harsh words to himself lessen. He begins to see the clouds all around him part ever so slightly. The rain is easing.

Finally he pushes through the clouds and is greeted with a glorious blue sky and the sun shines its beautiful warming rays upon him. A smile graces his face and his thinking mind has stopped. He can see the peak in the distance and the clouds far below.

His mind is still and as clear as the blue sky around him. He is filled with joy and peace and It’s just a few more steps to the top, just a few more steps to go.

Moral of the Story:

As humans it is the thoughts we have that play havoc in our lives. They can cause us stress and anxieties of pure suffering. To see these thoughts and our inner dialogue as no more than passing clouds in a weather system of our own making can help us let go and stop attaching importance to them.

Our feelings come from our thoughts and our behaviours are acting on those feelings. It is the thinking and inner dialogue that causes our feelings and are feelings dictate our behaviours. Thoughts come and thoughts go, just like clouds in the sky, neither attach or hold onto them and are behaviours are innately one of peace.

We can not control our thoughts, as humans we are like little thought factories producing one thought after another. It is always our attachment to these thoughts that make us suffer. Just allow the thought to pass, like the clouds in the sky, neither wanting to control or attach to them.

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*Dhamma Tāpasā is a trained former Buddhist Monk and the spiritual name given to Andrew Hallas. A 3 Principles Transformational Life Coach, a certified NLP Practitioner, Mindfulness Trainer, a Motivational Speaker as well as a Published Author.

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A Pig Called No-Squeal

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A Pig Called No-Squeal

Once upon a time, there were two calves who were part of a country household. Their names were little Red and Big Red, At the same home there also lived a girl and a baby pig. Since the pig hardly ever made a sound, he was known as ‘No-squeal’.

The masters of the house treated No-squeal very very well. They fed him large amounts of the very best rice, and even rice porridge with rich brown sugar.

A pig called no squeal classic story


The two calves noticed this. They worked hard pulling plows in the fields and bullock carts on the roads. Little Red said to Big Red, “My big brother, in this household you and I do all the hard work. We bring prosperity to the family. But they feed us only grass and hay. The baby pig No- squeal does nothing to support the family. And yet they feed him the finest and fanciest of foods. Why should he get such special treatment?”

The wise elder brother said, “Oh young one, it is dangerous to envy anybody. Therefore, do not envy the baby pig for being fed such rich food. What he eats is really ‘the food of death”.

“There will soon be a marriage ceremony for the daughter of the house, and little No-squeal will be the wedding feast! That’s why he is being pampered and fed in such rich fashion.

“In a few days the guests will arrive. Then this piglet will be dragged away by the legs, killed, and made into curry for the feast.”

Sure enough, in a few days the wedding guests arrived. The baby pig No-squeal was dragged away and killed. And just as Big Red had said, he was cooked in various types of curries and devoured by the guests.
Then Big Red said, “My dear young brother, did you see what happened to baby No- squeal?”

“Yes brother,” replied Little Red, “now I understand.”

Big Red continued, “This is the result of being fed such rich food., Our poor grass and hay are a hundred times better than his rich porridge and sweet brown sugar. For our food brings no harm to us, but instead promises long life!”

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Don’t envy the well-off, until you know the price they pay.

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The Zen Master and The Thief

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The Zen Master and the Thief

One evening, Zen master Shichiri Kojun was practicing Mesitation when a thief entered his house with a sharp sword, demanding “money or his life”

Without any fear, Shichiri said, “Don’t disturb me! Help yourself too the money, it’s in that drawer”. And he resumed his meditation.

The thief was startled by this unexpected reaction, but he proceeded with his business anyway. While he was helping himself with the money, the master stopped and called,

The zen master and the thief spiritual story

“Don’t take all of it. Leave some for me to pay my taxes tomorrow”.

The thief left some money behind and prepared to leave. Just before he left, the master suddenly shouted at him,

“You took my money and you didn’t even thank me?! That’s not polite!”.

This time, the thief was really shocked at such fearlessness. He thanked the master and ran away.

The thief later told his friends that he had never been so frightened in his life. A few days later, the thief was caught and confessed his thieft at Shichiri’s house, among many other crimes.

When the master was called as a witness, he said, “No, this man did not steal anything from me. I gave him the money. He even thanked me for it.”

The thief was so touched that he decided to repent. Upon his release from prison, he became a disciple of the master and many years later, he attained Enlightenment.

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The Creative Principle and Law of One

Guest Author: Selah Grenewood

The creative principle and law of one is the most important laws. The law of one is one with creative energy and principle. We liken this creative energy to the wheel with its flux. Its mechanism is cyclical, meaning, there is a beginning, middle and end. The creative energy is motion and movement, development and reinvention. It fashions, forms, renews, shapes. It remodels from what’s preexisting, something anew. Creativity is of life. It’s making with substance something valuable.

The experience of “oneness” is a way to connect with God and universal mind. The nature of the “eye” or “one” is unity and flows to a center point. “Oneness” is the source of limitless supply and creative regeneration. Universal scope in its entirety is experienced as complete wholeness within. If the experience of “oneness” is not reaching you, it is because you are Divided or Squared. You are in a state of, “I Object!” Your “I” is involved with conflict or confrontation. Your interests may be “divided,” your better judgment neglected for experiences and feelings which placed you in disorder or harm.

Ying asks us to contain the negative (-) or more active force of Yang instead of dispersing it. When we contain this charge, we are at the boundary line, or spiritual spine of the circle, which undulates between both states and supports stillness over reaction. We are in charge. Negative conditions of the mind weaken us mentally and physically and should be counteracted. 

Often times we are not fully present with our experiences. We are too frequently focused on the immediate future, to appreciate what is before us. 

“He didn’t live, existed,” is said of a person. 

What we’re really saying, is that this person wasn’t aware of the presence in their moments. They existed and did not live. They went “through” life instead of embodying it. We say “We’re making a living,” when really how often do we wish we were somewhere else? When presence is not partner with, separate from our moments, we are not living, existing.  

We purchase a watch to determine what time it is and how long it will take to reach a destination. In these cases, we are only concerned with the completion of a task. The watch’s true function is observation. We wear a watch to observe the presence in our moments and how we materialize. How should you? There are innumerable ways. You can appear self-contained, even frivolous if you like.

Without presence, being is worthless. “Being” designates location and materiality. Being is tangible. Experienced and significant. “Being,” then, determines the destination, and with presence, meaningfulness of our life.

These negative conditions of the mind can be made positive by staying on the circle’s boundary line.

We see the center as it exists, a collective of the whole at peace. We know this as our true source of being. Then we see the outlining situations that have outsourced this center, and which left us in suspension. Rows of disharmony, these situations were interference’s that lacked placement. Lacking harmony, with its centered understanding, they overlooked the difference. This leads to an over extension of our resources, and our depletion. Know that succession does not overthrow. Recitation frames the problem and presents the solution. It makes reference to what carries sound and substance. The loophole, or contentious situation, is inferred and the pattern recalled. Centrality does not deviate. Come full circle, don’t circumvent. When the path is true, there is growth as the rings on a tree. 

A question you can ask in meditation is, “What needs to come “full circle?”  

The answer will likely be revealed in your environment. 

Life connects us to the creator. We know creativity by its function supports. We know there was a creator who brought about the word of life. If we know this word as creative, then we will know how to live justly. 

We are given that which we enact. We reach “oneness” when we recognize that what we’re enacting has its consequences. What’s good for us is fruitful and productive; we know this by history and laws. When we refer to laws, we’re referring to energy. If you interface the law, you change its composition. You lessen and withdraw its active principle. Peace, does not need opposition to uphold its message and be a lesson. Peace can be of its own accord.

The creative energy is always moving us on the path that is advancing and proactive. The “law of one” will bring about peace on earth when we as a people learn to utilize force creatively

By Selah Grenewood

http://www.selahgrenewood.com/

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The Chicken Farmer and The Peacock

Once a very long time ago there lived a chicken farmer. He was proud of all his chickens and how well he cared and looked after them.

One day while out for a walk, our chicken farmer happened upon an egg just lying in the middle of the footpath.

Without hesitation he decided to pick it up and take it back home to his farm. He promised himself he would try to hatch the little egg and care for another life.

After a few days the egg hatched and out popped a little baby peacock.

Little baby peacock

A little surprised our chicken farmer decided to raise and care for it just like one of his other chickens and so placed it with all the other chickens.

The peacock made friends quickly with the other chickens and enjoyed his life immensely, he was happy and content playing with his new friends. He had no idea he was different and believed he was a chicken just like his friends.

Our peacock spent his days merrily pecking around at the grain and worms the chicken farmer provided. He played with his new friends and enjoyed his life a lot. He really thought and believed he was a chicken and never considered himself any different than his chicken friends.

One day that was about to change

It started our a normal day until the rain began to fall, it became heavier and heavier forcing all the chickens and himself to take shelter in the barn. the ground became saturated and left many puddles all around the yard. As the sun began to shine once more our peacock and other chickens left the barn and started playing again. As our peacock went for a drink of water in one of those puddles left by the rain he saw his reflection for the first time.

A beautiful peacock

Suddenly our peacock realised something startling. He could see he wasn’t like all the other chickens, the reflection staring back at him looked different. He saw for the first time he was actually a beautiful peacock.

“Oh my goodness” he said to himself “all this time I’ve been thinking I’m a chicken just like my friends”

“But I’m a beautiful peacock, and I can do what peacocks do”

And with that he unfurled his long tail feathers and made them into a fan of the most stunning colours that reflected the suns rays.

Peacock with beautiful tail feathers

Our peacock now realised who he really was

Moral of the Story:

We are what we think we are

There is an illusion in life that makes our problems feel real. An illusion that can keep us prisoners within our own minds.

This illusion is believing the world happens from the Outside-in rather than from the inside-out. We believe that what we experience on the outside translates to what we believe on the inside. This is far from the truth.

Our thoughts to any Outside experience produce are feelings and our behaviours are acting out on those feelings. Our Thoughts are produced because of our filters we have about life. These Filters have been learnt from past experiences, either good, bad or neutral. And these filters we can, and always have control over. (After all we created them in the first place)

We can choose to change our behaviours by changing these filters inside of us. In return these then change our feelings, which then change our thinking about how we react to any given situation, we all have this power, and it’s inside everyone of us. A power to choose a negative or positive response. The choice is entirely ours.

We may not be able to control situations from arising but we definitely have the power over how we perceive and think about them. This is how we experience the world from the Inside-out.

Be carful what you think!

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*Dhamma Tāpasā is a trained former Buddhist Monk and the spiritual name given to Andrew Hallas. Now a Life Changing and inspirational Positive Coach, a certified NLP Practitioner, Mindfulness Trainer, a Motivational Speaker and a Published Author.

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