A Zen Master dropped his handkerchief on the floor, and a disciple was there and the Master said, “Try to pick it up and give it back to me. Try!” And the disciple immediately took the handkerchief from the ground and gave it to the Master, but the Master dropped it again and he said, ”I am saying try to get it!” Six times the Master goes on dropping, and the disciple is puzzled as to what he means.
Then suddenly the idea struck him: ”The Master is saying try to get it.” He said, ”But how can I try? Either I pick it up or I don’t. How can I try?” And the Master said, ”That’s what you have been doing for three years – trying to meditate. Either you meditate or you don’t! How can you try?”
Trying is a device. Trying is a trick. When we don’t want to do a thing, we try. When we want to do a thing, we simply DO it!
-Excerpts from the book “Walk without feet” by Osho
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very true
I feel lucky to reach your website after reading above post “simply do it”
I always also delay my work by saying I’m trying but from now no more delays I’ll use try only as tool for reaching my goals…..
thanks for sharing this story to us
keep sharing more