silence shared in words
presents
Meditation
The Most Valuable Contribution the East Has Made to Humanity
Excerpt from The Invitation #21
Can you please speak on discipline and meditation?
Niten
it is a very strange question
because every day, morning and evening
I am speaking on discipline and meditation
If anybody reads your question
he will think
that for the first time
I have to speak on discipline and meditation
where you have been so far.
You remind me
of two old friends
they meet on a street in Leningrad.
'How is life treating you,"
asks one.
"Just great," replies the other.
The first one looks at him dubiously and says,
"Have you been reading the papers?"
"Of course," replies the other."how else would I know!"
People know about their own lives by reading newspapers
And I have been telling you
everyday about meditation and nothing else
and you are asking.
Okay
A little old Jewish lady
sits down on a plane
next to a big Norwegian
She keeps staring and staring at him.
Finally she turns to him and says,
"Pardon me, are you Jewish?"
"No," he replies.
A few minutes go by and she looks at him again and says
You can tell me -- you are Jewish, aren't you?"
He answers, "Definitely not."
She keeps studying him, and says again
"I can tell you are Jewish!"
In order to get her to stop annoying him
the gentleman says, "Okay,
I am Jewish."
She looks at him and shakes her head
back and forth and says, "Really,
you don't look it!"
I'm wondering wher to begin.