Word: chitrabhanu
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...Chitrabhanu says he personally became disenchanted with a business life as a child, when he lost his mother, sister and later a friend. No wealth could have saved them from death, he says, so he started searching for the meaning of life. After consulting many gurus, he found one who told him to rely on his own experience rather than solely on the words of others. At age 20 he became a Jainist monk, and spent the next five years almost entirely in silence to determine the meaning of life...
...Chitrabhanu, now age 56, spent nearly 30 years walking through India with small groups of monks spreading spiritual peace. They would spend a few days preaching in villages before moving on. In total, Chitrabhanu walked nearly 30,000 miles barefoot...
...Chitrabhanu writes that during a conversation with a well-known professor, a master of meditation began pouring tea into the educator's cup. Even though the cup had long overflowed, he continued to pour until the professor finally asked him, "What are you doing?" The tea has overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma...
...point of meditation is to add new thoughts, not rearrange the old ones, Chitrabhanu says. He adds young people are much better at meditating and accepting the idea of karma than older ones. They are the key to solving the world's problems, because they have the zeal to do it. Older people, more set in their patterns of thinking, lack the energy, enthusiasm and time to change the course of their lives...
Another way to approach spiritual perfection is to associate as much as possible with people who have more spiritual awareness and to avoid "weak people," whom Chitrabhanu defines as those with addictions, such as smoking, drinking, cursing or promiscuity. He compares people beginning the search for spiritual awareness to seedlings, which require firm support until they in turn are big enough to act as supports themselves...