Monkey Trap

My Dear Rishi,

It was nice to talk to you on the weekend. This weekend I got to spend time with Vishnu and Aakash, I felt at times as though you were with Honey and me. Honey and Aakash were playing just the way you used to play with Honey when you were a baby, it brought back so many wonderful memories. ....

Today's story is about Monkey Trap.

Monkey Trap

A master took his two students into a forest. There he took a hollow coconut with a small hole and inserted sweet rice. Then he tied it to a tree and waited with his student nearby.

Soon, a monkey came along, sniffed the rice, inserted his paw, and screeched in frustration when he was unable to withdraw his paw (now a fist clenching the rice) through the narrow opening.

'Let go of the rice, silly! Run!' screamed the students, amazed by its obvious stupidity... but to no avail.

'What was the trap that caught the monkey?' asked the master.

'Rice,' said one student.
'The coconut,' said another.

'No,' replied the wise master, 'The trap was greed - he only had to let go of his attachment to be free. Likewise, we are the ones who trap ourselves. We are always responsible. The real trap is always within, not out there. The causes of suffering are in us. External situations are only conditions.'

With that, he hacked the coconut open... and the unrepentant monkey ran away with a fistful of rice.


Unlike the monkey, god has given us the faculties of introspection. When ever you feel miserable or unhappy or angry,  you need to ask yourself what are you holding on to? What are you not willing to let go? Seek the answers within. Ask your heart. Once you seek these answers internally, my suggestion for you is let go and be free. I have learned this quite late and finally implemented in my life, love. It is initially very very difficult love, but once you let go you will just be and free. All your pain, sorrow, suffering will seize and you will soar like an eagle.....be free. There is a reason why we humans are called HUMAN BEINGS and not HUMAN DOING or HUMAN something else...So let's learn to LET GO and JUST BE FREE from all the drama and melodrama..BE HAPPY..The purpose of life is to BE HAPPY

Few years back I came across an interesting poem Rishi and I want to share it with you.

LETTING GO-FEAR LESS, LOVE MORE

Author Unknown

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring.

It means I can't do it for someone else.

To "let go" is not cut myself off

It's the realization I can't control another.

To "let go" is to not enable

But to allow learning from natural consequences.

To  "let go" is to admit powerlessness

Which means the outcome is not in my hands

To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another.

It is to make the " is not to "care for".

But "care about"

To "let go" is not to "fix"

But to be supportive.

To "let go" is not to judge

But to allow another human being "to be".

To "let go" is to not be in the middle arranging all the outcomes

But to allow others to affect their destinies

To "let go" is not to be protective

It is to permit another to face reality.

To "let go" is not to deny

But to accept.

To "let go" is not nag, scold or argue

But instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires

But to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

To "let go" is not to criticize and regulate anybody

But to try to become what I dream I can be

To "let go" is to not to regret the past

But to grow and live for the future

To "let go" is to

FEAR LESS and LOVE MORE

Rishi I love you and miss you very much.

With lots of love, hugs and kisses,

Daddy