Three Days Three Quotes Challenge……..

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Gautama Buddha has written a very profound and meaningful quote: ‘LIKE A HONEY BEE’ where he compares the Life of a Man of Awareness to A Honey Bee.

He says: ‘The Buddhist Monk or a man of awareness lives in this world like a Bee. He goes from house to house asking for food, never asks from just one house because that may be too much of a burden for that family. So he asks from many houses, just a little bit from one house, a little bit from another, and he never goes to the same house again. He never mars the beauty of this world, he never destroys the perfume of this world, he lives silently, moves silently and asks only as much as is needed. He is a man of few words. His life is very simple and it is not complex.

His life is like a Honey Bee. The bee too goes from one flower to another and goes on moving from flower to flower, it is non-possessive, not attached to anything. It takes so little nectar from one flower that the beauty is not marred, the perfume is not destroyed. The flower never becomes aware of the bee, it comes so silently and goes so silently. The bee never gathers for tomorrow, today is enough unto itself.

In the same way the Man of Awareness lives in the here and now. He does not believe in the Past nor Future. He does not own anything nor has likes or dislikes. He simply moves in his silence and Today is enough for him just like the Honey Bee.