How to Use This Book🔗

Open your heart... Let your enthusiasm overflow!

The stories appearing in this book are not just ordinary stories. They are seeds selected to beautify our life story itself.

For a seed to sprout and grow into a tree, the earth should nourish it to grow. In the same way, for us to grow, for our minds to become healthy, let us allow these stories to nourish us.

The sugar coating on the medicines that heal the man is only an attempt to reduce the bitter taste of the medicine and add sweetness to it as it heals.

This book, 'Open the Door ... Let the Breeze in' comes with stories and pearls of wisdom , by adding some suitable stories, to reduce the struggle of the mind to understand the concepts and easily realize the truth, which makes a man complete in all respects.

To get the maximum benefit from the book:

• Do not read more than one article in a day. If not, just two articles per day. (If you read the entire book in a day, stories may remain in the mind, but the seed of truth which lies buried in them, will not get rooted and established in the mind.)
• Put in practice whatever you have read. (Then only the bad aspects present in your walk of life will vanish and limitless bliss will be born).
• Instead of intellectually believing in the truths contained in this book, experience them. For the modern man. this may be somewhat difficult.

Examine and see.

Think well and implement them.

Can the truths mentioned in the book be the truths to enrich my life as well? In which case, how best may I use them?

With this attitude of mind, examine these articles. Implement them in the examination of life. Achieve success and be blissful!

Open the Door... Let the Breeze in!

One night, a Zen Master stood by the side of a river, watching the beauty of its flow. The moon and the stars were reflected in the waters, and there was peace all around.

On the bank of the same river, a little distance away, stood a man who was restless and had no time for the river, moon and stars. He was depressed, fed up with life and moaned inside his dark hut. 'Oh life is miserable! Life is miserable!'

The Zen Master heard this man and called out: 'No, my friend, life is full of joy. Come out of the hut and see. Only then will you know.'

There was no response.

Master continued, 'Keep your door open, and let the breeze come in. The breeze which comes towards you will bring you out into happiness.'

Still, there was no response.

Suddenly, the Master screamed, 'Oh God ... Danger! Danger! There is fire in your hut.'

The moment the man heard this, he came rushing out of the hut.

The Master took him by his hand and showed him the stars in the sky. After looking at the beautiful moon, the twinkling of the stars and the calmly flowing river, the man admired them and stood there blissfully.

Like this man, most of us do not respond when a Master tells us, 'Come out of your shelter ... You will enjoy bliss."

If one has no belief in God there is no use telling that person, 'You can see the almighty and get salvation.'

The only way that person will listen is when he feels that his house is on fire. Shouting out, 'Danger! The hut is on fire' is only a technique to bring the non believer out.

The human being is like a silkworm that builds a cocoon around itself from which it cannot escape. A man, while living with miseries, builds walls, thinking that he is building a beautiful house. Once built, he finds it's a jail, and does not know how to break out of it; he lacks the courage to break away.

If the seed is afraid of bursting open, no tree can arise out of it. If the worm is afraid to tear open its cocoon, it cannot come out and fly in the sky freely as a butterfly. If we are afraid to open the door, we cannot let the breeze inside.

Have courage, open the door, and let the breeze in.