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pointed and you make your face long and you cry. But if you say, "I am contended, I don't want it”, where is sorrow?
We must know the cause of our pain. We think we are going to get happiness clinging to somebody or something. But as soon as we cling, we have sown the seeds of sorrow. Only when we are empty we want something from someone else. But that person is not going to give us what we want because he or she does not have it.
Once a man was going to the market to sell ghee, which is butter that has been purified in liquid form. This man filled his pot with water and put a little warm ghee on the top. When ghee is put on water it hardens, so it appeared that the pot was completely filled with ghee. Along the way, he met a man who said, 'What is in this pot of yours?" "ït is ghee for sale," replied the first man. "Let me see," said the second. He looked in and saw the whole pot filled with ghee. So he said, "How would you like to make a bargain? I have two bracelets which are made of gold. I can give you the bracelets if you give me the ghee." The first man said, "Very good," knowing the pot was full of water. But the other man had brass bracelets with only a little glitter of gold. So he thought, “This is not a bad business to have so much ghee for some bracelets of brass."
So they were both very happy. But when they reached home, they both discovered that they had played a trick on each other. Sometimes two empty
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