A woman who had been serving a monk grew old and wanted to ensure that she was serving the right person. So, she sent a prostitute to serve him at night by offering him food. When the monk saw the prostitute, he became angry and threw her out. When the old woman heard this, she felt the monk should have been kind and compassionate toward the prostitute. She concluded that the monk had not truly renounced his fears. Therefore, the old woman told the prostitute that she had been serving the wrong person and advised her to go and burn the monk’s hut.

Understand how a life filled with fear, anger and distress can lead one down the wrong path.

A wise person is one who has abandoned fear and desire. This is the true criterion. If a person begs the Lord for this or that, he becomes lost in the future and thus misses the Lord’s play in the present moment. Therefore, such a person’s prayer is an expression of greed and a function of the ego. In the process, he accumulates an inner heaviness of “wanting more”. If he prays out of fear, that fear continues to strengthen in some form, making him increasingly fragmented. One who has dropped fear and desire is not punishing himself or striving to reach somewhere. Such individuals are truly wise.

To see the cosmos in the chaos, one must learn to search, learn to see and learn to explore. Without exploration, one will remain lost in chaos and miss the cosmos. But if one looks wisely—within the chaotic, scattered and restless mind—one will discover a hidden cosmos. The mind, through its thoughts, is constantly searching for happiness. Thought suggests that happiness lies outside—in the world of pleasures and objects. However, one must observe whether such a search will truly bring happiness.

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