HUMANS BEINGS HAVE MORE CRAVING

Human beings are more selfish in their craving for pleasure than any other livings beings. They enjoy the worldly life and give in to sensual pleasure with no thought for the welfare of others. Sensual people like long to experience more pleasures. They develop craving towards property and accumulate more property and are afraid to die bcoz they do not want to part with their property.
Other living beings have no such selfish ideas based on collecting things and hanging on to them. They use their five senses only for their survival and lead a natural life without wilfully cheating others. It has been said that only humans hoard more than they can eat. All the other animals take only as much as they need. What do not need they leave alone for others.
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."

THE WORLD IS AN EXAMINATION HALL

God is an examiner,
We are all students, 
The life is the answer book,
In which we take the examination.
The worls is a hall,
Where we are sitting.
So take the examination
The time allowed is only three hours
The first hour's bell rings in the childhood.
The second in the youth
And third in the old age.
The bell of the last hour is
Rung by the messenger of God
The examination is over
The copy is snatched.
Life there comes to an end,
Don't try to cheat.
You can't receive any one yourself,
you may lose marks.
By wasting and writing nothing,
So write down what you know.
So that you may not repeat saying,
That paper was lengthy,
the time wa short.
If we fail,
We come back to the same hall.
Another new life once more
If we say
We go to heaven and return no more.

KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

Wisdom is not Knowledge. We do gain Knowledge after listening,reading and observing many things in this world but it is not wisdom in real sense. Wisdom only appears in the mind when mental hinderances, obstructions and other impurities are not active in the mind.
There are many learned people all over the world who no doubt have wonderful knowledge but nfortunately lack proper wisdom. Many people are intelligent but their behaviour however is not reasonable, as some are hot-tempered, egoistic, emotional, jealous, greedy and temperamental. Intellectuals  are more cunning rather than wise.
On the other hand, there are others who are very kind and although they have patience, tolerance and many other good qualities, their wisdom is very poor as they can be easily misled by others. If we develop our generosity without proper understanding, we could get into trouble as certain people can take undue advantage of us. understanding and good qualities must therefore go together.

"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignoranr fool."

A LOT OF NONSENSE

A lot of fuss
A lot of tears 
A lot of people
A lot of money
A lot of time
And all for what ?
A lot of trouble
A little body !
A blob of protein
Fast unwinding,
A little corpse
Quick decaying.
No longer is it
Dear Father, mother
Or any other.
In spite of this
We must have
Consolations and coffins
Processions and Tombstones
Parties and mourning
Rites and rituals
Buried or burnt
Embalmed forever,
All for these little
Bloated bodies.
Sons remember
Grandsons little,
And after them
Are the dead forgotten,
Stones and bones alone remaining.
So is this not
A lot of nonsense ?