Inspirational Story : Be open - not philosophizing

Be open - not philosophizing

Ten philosophers were imprisoned in a country. They were kept together in one cell. 

They decided that somehow they should escape from the prison.

They sat and made a big plan. They got the mold of the prison door key and made a duplicate key. 
Finally, they chose the date of escape. The whole plan was clearly laid out. 

They decided that on the particular night, two of them will open the prison door with the duplicate key and signal to the others. The others would escape and these two would follow after locking the door behind them.

The day of escape dawned and two of them went to open the door. The rest of them waited for the signal. They waited and waited but never got any signal. 

Three hours passed. Suddenly the two who had gone to open the door came back and said, ‘We have to drop our plan to escape. It can’t happen today.

The others asked, ‘Why, what happened?’

They replied,‘What to do? The foolish guards forgot
to lock the prison door!’

Those who philosophize cannot think of anything new! 

It has to be the same old mental setup. If there is some change or some new situation, they cannot think creatively to deal with it, because they are not open. They are like a closed circuit. 

We have also become like philosophers when dealing with our lives. We are stuck in patterns of the past. We are never in the moment. If anything new happens, we are at a loss.

The person who experiences the ‘ever living presence’ experiences life in its freshness. He is also the one who is open and available. He constantly experiences the oneness with everything around him.

With philosophy, you have fixed ideas and you become very assertive. When you are too assertive, you can’t love. Assertion is aggressiveness that does not allow love to come in. When you are too sure and filled with preconceived ideas, then where is the space for love to enter?

Love needs beautiful space in order to blossom.