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The Net

By Sri Nisargadatta

The real world is beyond our thoughts

and ideas; we see it through the net of our

desires, divided into pleasure and pain,

right and wrong, inner and outer. To see

the universe as it really is, you must step

beyond the net. It’s not hard to do, for the

net is full of holes

 

A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood and the next morning while they

were eating breakfast the young woman sees her neighbour hanging out the wash.

‘That laundry is not very clean,’ she says. ‘She doesn’t know how

to wash her clothes properly –  I wonder if she needs a better laundry soap.’

Her husband looks on, but remains silent. Every time her neighbour hangs out her

wash to dry, the young woman makes the same comments.

About a month later, the young woman is surprised to see a nice clean w

ash on the line and says to her husband: ‘look, our neighbour has learned to wash correctly.

I wonder who taught her?’

The husband replies ‘I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.’

And so it is with life. What we see depends upon the purity of the window we are looking through

 

Barbara and Terry Tebo