Charles Catering recollects this interesting incident: Once I bet a friend that if I bought him a birdcage to hang in his sitting-room he would have to buy a bird. The friend laughed and said he could keep a cage without a bird - there was nothing to it! He accepted the bet and I bought him a beautiful cage from Switzerland which he hung in his sitting-room. Naturally, the inevitable happened - life has its own logic. Whosoever saw the cage immediately sympathized with him,
asking: When did your bird die? He would answer: I never had a bird. Then they would say: So why the empty cage? Finally he got sick and tired of explaining and went and bought a bird. When I asked him about it he said: It was easier to buy the bird and lose the bet than to explain things to each and every one from morn till night. And also, seeing this empty cage hanging there day in and day out, my mind kept repeating: The bird! The bird! The bird!
So, if you hang commitment like a cage in the mind it won't be long before the bird of sadhana comes!
asking: When did your bird die? He would answer: I never had a bird. Then they would say: So why the empty cage? Finally he got sick and tired of explaining and went and bought a bird. When I asked him about it he said: It was easier to buy the bird and lose the bet than to explain things to each and every one from morn till night. And also, seeing this empty cage hanging there day in and day out, my mind kept repeating: The bird! The bird! The bird!
So, if you hang commitment like a cage in the mind it won't be long before the bird of sadhana comes!
