Holy Monk, Why Do You Waste Your Life In Silence? Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

The monk was drawing water
from a well with a bucket.
A group of young men came
and asked: „why do you waste
your life living alone in silence? ".

Peacefully the monk answered:
„Look at the water in the well.
Tell me what you see now.

They answered: nothing.
The water is not peaceful.

After sometime monk asked:
Now you look in the well
and tell me what you see.


They answered: we see our faces.

Look, when the water is peaceful
You can see yourself.
So is with meditation in silence.
You see yourself.

Even after sometime
The monk again asked:
Look and tell me now
What you see in the well.
They told: we see clearly
the pebbles and stones
at the bottom of the well.

So also is with meditation in silence.
You see everything in depth".


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