Buddha’s Advice To Calm A Disturbed Mind

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers.. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!”

So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.” After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake.

This time too he found that the lake was muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same. After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back. The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,” See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be…. and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water. Your mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.

Dear Reddy,
Pretty intresting story, now we know wat to do wen work is disturbing us... Just let it be :D
Regards
Jyothi

Hi Guys,
Good one, but in reaity all issues / esclations in real-life is bounded with a definite timeliness / deadlines , in this scenario how can one remain calm ?????

Dear Friend Reddy,
Really Good story and what God Buddha said is 100 % correct, when our mind is in disturb we have to give some time afterwards it will become normal.
Thanks a lot for sharing nice motivational story.

Hello Reddy,
A nice Posting--resembles the Karma sayings of Hinduism.
And the reply for Sanjay & Jyothi is:Just let it be....NOT idly but with YOU doing what's in YOUR hands wholeheartedly & not just because you are being pressured [by self or something external] into doing it--the difference is in the intention & feeling, that's all.
Rgds,
TS

but do we have any other alternative to that. if not better to remain calm or let it be??? we just need to work with full dedication to put things in smooth way..

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There are lot many things taught in school, which people do not remember, if they do these kind of phrases would not be required, coz following doesn't help it's the leadership what matters...cheers...!

That was nice, please do share more like this...
Because in this competative world we usually get distrubed with lot of obstcles on the way to success. Its definitely important to know ourself how to keep our mind calm and stress free from dealines.

thanks for sharing this with us.The mind controls the whole body of ours. Give us more to reflect and refresh us wholly. Dr.Edward Dias, DiasPagapong plc.

Very true. When we react instantaneously to any provocation, and later we realise that the reaction was totally inappropriate. It is almost always necessary that we lean back and take time to realise the situation and try to think on the alternatives. Surely very interesting post.
Regards
KK

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hi,
Very inspiring story.
@sanjay: In real life facing Issues/escalations/pressure situations , what you can learn from this story is:
Take time,keep your mind relaxed.Give some time to get things settled.
Time is the best healer.
In tension you never find a solution.The problem what we find in pressure is that we dont catch the root cause of the problem,and we search every where apart from the root for the answer.
By keeping a patient mind we always get solutions.
Regards
Aditya Sharma

Sub : Buddhas advice
Thanks for the wonderful posting. keep posting the same type of content which would be useful to the corporate savvys.
regards
S.Lawrence HR

Buddha is the only solution ,for todays peace.the most realistic ,rational philosophy ever.thanx for sharing of most caring thoughts.

Real good thought.Please send some more such real life examples for public speaking, customer related
Minakshi D

Nice one keep posting the likes, certainly someone will get benefiter.
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Thanks for sharing this story.It is more relevent in todays context.Never take a decision, when you are angry or agitated,this is the lesson learnt.
Thanks and regards,
Col Virendra

Dear Reddy
Thanks to share with us. It is nice story with good teaching. please post this type stories so that we can come out of tension mind.
thanks a lot once again.
bhaskar

Thank you ..this is indeed a nice and calming message.
I was always taught to count to 10 slowly when angry. Being somewhat short tempered and never one to suffer fools gladly, I never paid much serious attention to this advice. But the few times I did, it had a calming affect on my mind.
Thanks again

Dear Doondi Reddy
Thanks for sharing the story that teaches us to calm our disturbed mind.
Dear Ashafalashroff,
As you said in your comments " lots of such stories in Osho's books", Why don't you share something with us all ?
But here at least we must appreciate Doondi Reddy to share something with all.
Regards,
Singh S

hi...nice one
But sometimes though u want to get settled down storms of many problems come and stirs ur integrity..I thnk ths might be faced by every one...how to tackle ths??can anybody answer???

Yes
Its is very inspiring........ One thing is true, god has created this world with his wisdom ...... Hence, we can gain lot of wisdom by observing the nature itself…….
Thanks Reddy for sharing such a simple and great lesson……

Very Nice and truthful message. Mind is a sea in which so many thoughts are gathering. When unwanted thoughts settled down then only good thought will come up.

Good one..... These are the stories from "Jataka Stories" , which claim to tell the stories of previous births of Budda in both human and animal forms....... Jati : being reffered as previous births of Goutama Bhudda, (I suppose some 550 births or something, I am clear...)

The same kind of the story is referred somewhere ...... in which it speaks about the importance of Bhagavadgeetha.....



An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson.

Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Bhagavat Geeta. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.



One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavat Geeta just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavat Geeta do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house.

The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"

"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bhagavat Geeta. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Krishna in our lives."



There so many beautiful stories are there in Jataka too compared to Panchatantra, VikramBethala, Akbar Birbal, Tenali Ramakrishna....... are very informative as well as refreshing.......