[music]
Satsang with Mooji
[music]
Zmar
The Winning Ticket is in Your Pocket
Zmar, Portugal 15. Sept. 2013 - Session 1
Trust in Life and You Will See. (with subtitles)
You cannot tell what the shape of things will be,
how they will turn out,
but in the end, everything turns out just fine.
I told a story one time of one king. He ...
He was not a particularly wise king,
but his real blessing
was his counselor.
He had a counselor who was very wise. The king, not so wise.
But he was wise enough to know that he has a wise counselor. [laughter]
So everywhere the king goes, the counselor goes with him, everywhere.
The counselor seemed to always have a very positive outlook on things.
If anything happened, sometimes the counselor would say,
'This is not bad my lord'. The king would believe, like this.
It so happened that one morning,
everywhere the counselor goes,
except in the bathroom or something, he would wait outside,
and then everywhere the king goes, the counselor is there.
So one morning the king was getting out of bed and he was a plump chap,
and he was sliding into his royal slippers on these marble floors,
and he slipped,
'Pft!', on the ground and landed on his elbow,
and it smashed open like, 'Crack!', 'Ah!' And he is in such pain, 'Ah!'
The whole palace could hear him screaming, 'Aah!', like this.
Then he shouted, first thing, before even, 'Queen',
he shouted, 'Counselor!' Quickly the counselor came, 'My lord, what is it?'
He says, 'Ah! Look what's happened to my arm!'
'What happened?' 'Oh, why did this happen?' Like this.
The counselor looked and said, 'It is good my lord'. [laughter]
The king was very upset.
He said, 'How could you say something like that?
Look how much it hurts! Get away from me!' He was very angry.
He called, 'Guards!' The guards came - 'Take him away'.
They took the counselor down the steps, into the dungeon they put him.
And, 'Ku-klung!', lock it, 'Click!' Poor counselor sits. [laughter]
Counselor sits down and he is there.
So the king stays in bed now, he could not go anywhere for awhile.
It's still hurting, they bandaged his arm, everything.
After one week passed, he could not bear sitting there,
just waiting for this arm to heal.
He got up one morning, he was feeling much better,
much better, 'Ah, feels better'.
And he felt, 'No, I have to get some fresh air'.
And he felt like riding, he loved riding.
So he called to get the royal horses,
one horse saddled up, his favorite horse, white horse, saddled up.
He put on his robes and they brought him to his horse,
he mounted the horse, and immediately,
'Clack!' [horse riding sounds]
And he goes, and he is enjoying, 'Oh, wonderful!'
Counselor is still in jail, sitting, waiting.
So, off the king goes for a very long way,
and this morning, he especially felt like not stopping,
and is galloping, [horse riding sounds]
until he came to the edge of his own kingdom,
he came like that.
And he didn't even realise that,
but he is again in a strange land.
And along the way he sees a white deer
and he is captivated, 'Ah!' He slows the horse down,
[slow horse riding sounds]
He is looking at this deer, he didn't see a tree branch,
[slow horse riding sounds] 'Boop!'
OK and he falls off, like that.
And then quickly he is captured
by a tribe of cannibals.
[laughter]
OK. He is captured,. And they capture the king, 'Oh!'
Then somehow they are taking him back to the village.
And he is terrified, he could see that they are cannibals. [laughter]
They are going back, and they already sent a message to the village,
'We have got a fat one coming'. [laughter]
He is coming, and they start to play,
[hand drum sounds]
and they are dancing, and they are building a big fire.
Big fire - big king. And so ... [laughter]
They put him inside one room for a minute
and there is a big celebration going.
Of course, he is totally terrified.
He is looking through the wall of the hut, looking out,
and he sees they are preparing a big skewer. [laughter]
'No, no, no!', he is terrified.
[laughter]
Then came the moment, they came, and they came for him.
And they are pulling him, 'Aah! No, no!'
They take him to the fire.
I am sure somebody's got some black pepper and everything, [laughter]
a bit of salt. Anyway they are pulling him, and he is going.
It is the most terrifying moment you can imagine.
They are pulling him and at the last minute,
they are about to bring him right to the fire,
they're pulling and his sleeve came off,
and they saw the bloody elbow.
And suddenly, [hand drum sounds stop]
they stop, they look,
everybody goes, 'Aaw'. [laughter]
Big disappointment, he is imperfect, they cannot sacrifice him.
[laughter]
He is also a little bit, 'What's going on?'
They are very disappointed, he looks very juicy as well.
So then they all took him to the horse, pushed him onto his horse,
slapped the horse. [horse riding sounds]
The king is hanging on.
He is completely traumatised by the experience. [laughter]
After a long time he finds himself back in his own kingdom.
[horse riding sounds]
He is exhausted, they took him off his horse.
'Your majesty what happened?' They took him to his room
and he collapses completely out of just the impact of all this.
[labored breathing sounds] Then he is beginning to reflect
how lucky
he is.
And then he remembered the counselor's words, 'This is good my lord'.
Then he remembered the counselor,
'My counselor! He's been in jail for over one week, innocent.'
So immediately, he himself goes down into the dungeon,
'Take me, take me, quick, quick! I must see my counselor.'
So they took him down and then they open, 'ku-clunk!'
They opened the door and the counselor is sitting.
'Oh, counselor, counselor!' 'Oh my lord, your majesty', he says.
'What have I done, what have I done?' 'Oh, what's the problem?'
He says, 'You know, you are so good, you are my best counselor.
One week ago, when I damaged my arm, you said it was good
and I was so angry with you, I couldn't see. And now ...'
He told him the story,
'Look at that, it turned out to be good for me,
but you were locked up, you were locked up.
How did it turn out to be good for you?
You said it's good for me, how is it?'
The counselor stopped a moment and said,
'Well my lord, you know I am always with you'. [laughter]
So when you went out riding, wherever that would have been,
I would have been with you, and they would have captured both of us.
[laughter]
And when they saw that they could not have sacrificed you,
[laughter]
then they would have sacrificed me.
So it was good for me to be here in jail.' [laughter]
[laughter and applause]
So the point of this story is that you don't know
how things are going to turn out.
Sometimes we are making premature conclusions, 'Oh, this is so bad'.
I say, Just keep quiet.
And don't wait. Trust in life and you will see.
The more quiet you are, the more you'll see things as they really are.
And when you see things as they are,
your heart will be filled with gratitude
and you'll grow in wisdom for that.
The mind is always acting prematurely,
always too quick to make a judgment,
and always misinterpreting things.
So what may seem sometimes as life being challenging,
if you keep quiet, your mind will open up and work in another way.
You will begin to see the beauty,
that perhaps when you are in, so called, 'a better situation',
you would not have been appreciating the much subtler,
much more refined way of consciousness.
You don't know how things are going to turn out.
Don't make premature conclusions.
The more quiet you are, the more you see things as they really are.
When you see things as they are,
your heart will be filled with gratitude
and you will grow in wisdom.
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