Thus we must refrain from putting things in the bracket of good or bad as often it is true that what was cause of your happiness yesterday is the cause of your sorrow today. The wise villager again replied “may be”. Then after few days a war broke out all the able bodied young men were conscripted to fight in the battle and the son of the wise villagers was left as he had a broken leg so again the fellow villagers came and said that it is such good luck that your son’s leg is broken he didn’t have to go to war.
Few days later the son of the villager was riding the mare and fell on ground and broke his leg, the village folks again came to the wise villager and said such misfortune this mare came and hence yours son’s leg broke. The wise villager still replied “may be”. Then as providence would have it the horse came back with a mare and the fellow villagers rejoiced and said that this is such good fortune. There was once a villager who had a horse, the horse ran away and all his fellow villagers said that it was so bad that his horse ran away, the wise villager replied “may be”. There is a beautiful Zen fable that can bring to home this point. But even if you are an atheist or an antagonist you may still can see things as they are without marking them as good or bad. Things are as they are and we must not try to put them into brackets of good or bad, this becomes easier if you are faithful and you believe that whatever happens God does it for the best. Another thing that helps in not obsessing about the result of an action is not marking the result as good and bad or desirable or undesirable. Also, it can be seen that when one is not thinking about the results only then are they able to perform to the best of their capacity. We must be satisfied that we did our best because ultimately that is what one can do. This is the path of not carrying forward things by not obsessing or getting our emotions attached to the result of the action.
This is such a beautiful concept and the same is the concept of mindfulness in Zen Buddhism. In Gita Krishna tells Arjun that the action done without emphasis on fruits of action is the right action and does not bind the person in any way. Many other issues of poverty, fundamentalism, falsehood etc are also plaguing this world the author believes that the path of right action is the only path. When there is a dire need of right action against the ills of the world like environmental degradation like global warming (global catastrophe is a more suited word), consumerism, mental health issues. However, without deriding other paths to truth the author believes that the path of karm yog and zen are best suited to this day and age. There are many paths to reach the ultimate truth some go with the way of bhakti, some opt for the way of gyan, some go into deep meditation, there are hundreds and hundreds of path suggested and all are beautiful in their own way and are for different people of different temperaments, deposition etc. There are many treatises written on the same, on the other hand the word Zen is said to have been derived from the sanskrit word “dhyan” and is part of Buddhism.Ī major part of Zen talks about Mindfulness and if we look closely Karm Yog and Zen seems to be pointing towards the same truth.
Karm Yog as we all know is enunciated by Lord Krishna in the Bhagvad Gita as the path of selfless action.
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