YOU WILL KEEP MOTIVATED BY LEARNING SMALL THINGS | THE REAL LEARNING | BUDDHA LIFE STORY |

[Music] a long time ago in a village lived a monk who was very famous and had many disciples one day one of his disciples came to him and asked master who is your teacher from whom did you gain your knowledge monk smiled at disciples question and replied my son i have many teachers if i start to count then it will take many days to count but still i will tell you about three teachers of my life then monk said one of my teacher was a thief once i lost my way and when i reached some far away village it got late at night and all shops and houses were closed at last i found a man who was trying to jump over a wall into a house i asked him can you tell me a place where i can stay for a night he replied it is late night and it will be very difficult to find a place to stay at this time you can stay with me but i am a thief if you don't have any objection then you can come to my place and stay there he was such a nice person that i stayed with him for a month every night before leaving he would say to me i am going for work have rest and do your prayers whenever he would return home i would ask him if he got anything he would say i did not get anything today but if god wish then soon i will get something he would never feel disappointed and sad his teachings came in handy when i was practicing meditation for many years but still nothing happened there were many moments when i felt sad and frustrated and thought of quitting meditation at those times i would suddenly remember of thief who used to say that if god wishes soon i will get something thinking that gave me strength and again motivated me to continue working hard my second teacher was a dog once it was a very hot day and i was thirsty and was searching for water just then i saw a dog who came running toward a river vandal got close to river and looked into the river he saw another dog which was his own reflection dog got scared to see another dog and parked at it and then stepped back but because he was thirsty he would again get near river to drink water and this happened many times eventually despite his fear he jumped into the river and the reflection disappeared seeing this courage of the dog i learned that if a person despite his fear move forward person who fights his fear will definitely get success in his life my third teacher was a small kid once i was passing by a village on the way i saw a small kid walking toward a church carrying a lighted candle i jokingly asked him did you light up this candle he replied yes i did then i said there was a moment when candle was extinguished and then a movement came when candle was burning can you show me the source from where light came kid laughed and just an extinguished candle and said did you see light going away can you tell me where did it go at that moment my ego was shattered and i gained knowledge at that time i realized my own stupidity and started to learn for the real in fact anything around us can be our teacher if we have quest to learn [Music] if we see in our lives then we will find that if we want to learn we can learn from anyone every person or creature can teach us something we just need to have a thirst to learn this life will give us many opportunities to meet teacher in one or other form in this nature therefore we should always keep on learning good things by becoming a disciple in our life buddha also went to many teachers in his life but when no one could take him to his destination buddha decided to walk on his path alone buddha always kept learning something from the happenings around him once when buddha was disappointed at not achieving self-realization and decided to leave this path he saw a squirrel which was trying to dry up the water in the pond by wetting its body and shaking water after coming outside the pond because its children were drowned in the lake she wanted to rescue her children buddha saw that this girl is not getting discouraged while doing an impossible task then why should i be disappointed for not achieving my goal so he kept moving on his path and achieved self-realization therefore don't think that any person or creature is smaller than you because everyone can teach you something or the other and as long as you keep on learning something in your life you will keep moving forward on the path of progress in your life [Music] you