Focus On Your Life - a zen buddhist lesson

[Music] [Music] once upon a time a student monk went to his master and said master I can't live in this Temple anymore I want to leave this place and go to a peaceful and quiet Monastery the master monk asked why what's wrong with this Temple tell me what happened so the student monk said you see Master everyone in this Temple is toxic to me there are so many monks who are just too much into politics and there are some other monks who always talk negative stuff about me and about you and others and there are

some who spent their whole day just doing nothing but just gossiping I don't think that I can practice my spiritual life in this Temple please let me go to a peaceful and quiet monastery where there are no toxic people around me the master monk listened attentively to student and said okay student I will let you go but before going you have to do me a favor one last favor and the student said of course Master everything just tell me what I should do for you so the master monk took a spoonful of water and gave

it to the student Monk and he told him that he must carry the Spoonful of water around the monastery and bring it back to him without dropping a single drop of water the master monk added if you can do that I will let you go to a peaceful Monastery eager to complete this task so he could go to a peaceful Monastery the student monk took the Spoonful of water and carried it around the monastery fully focused and without spilling a single drop from it so so after a few hours the student monk came back to

the master with a happy face and said master master I did it I carried this spoonful of water all around the monastery without spilling a single drop from it so now please keep your promise and let me go to a peaceful Monastery the master monk smiled and said okay my student as promised you are free to go but before you go just tell me one thing while you were carrying the Spoonful of water around the monastery did you hear any of the monks talking about politics did you hear any of the monks gossiping about you

me and other people did you hear any of the monks talking negative stuff and the student monk replied he said no master I was fully focused on the spoon and I didn't have any time to listen to all those noises just then the master monk said see my student if you are fully focused on your goal and if you are fully focused on your purpose you don't have time to listen to all those other negative noises around you remember wherever you go in this world you will meet negative people around you but if you are

fully focused on your goal and on your larger purpose all the other negative people and all the other negative words that you hear are nothing but just noises you seen life in your life no matter where you are and where you go the more you focus on other people's behaviors other people's words other people's lives you will always meet toxic people you will always feel coming off your true path your true goal just be focused on yourself that doesn't mean that you should be selfish but be focused on your goal on your path on your

way and all those negative people all this chitat will just become a noise around you so don't fear of listening to yourself and concentrating on your own life and ignore negative people around you for also these negative people have a good side to them which maybe you just can't see or can't hear and if you think of running away then just remember wherever you run to there are bad people and there are people who talk bad about you and you always come across people that you don't like if you happy in one place you will

be happy everywhere if you're unhappy in one place there's not a place in the world which can make you happy focus on your life and yourself this is there to-do motivation stories thank you so much for watching and stay [Music] [Music] blessed