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Full Video on YouTube : The Mirror: Parable That Destroys All Excuses || Acharya Prashant, on Idries Shah (2025)

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Transcript
00:00My mother was here, so I was driving her around one evening.
00:03There was an ass in the middle of the road.
00:05No, it looked quite frail.
00:07You could count its ribs.
00:09And I honked and it stayed there in the middle and the roads here are not very wide.
00:13And mother said, you know, when it rains, the donkey looks at all the greenery around
00:18and says, there is so much to eat that I didn't eat and now others will eat it.
00:23And this worry totally dries him down.
00:25In contrast, when it is summers and the donkey looks around and finds not a blade of grass,
00:30feels really happy, fills up.
00:32If I can see no grass around anywhere, what does that mean?
00:36I ate up everything and if I ate up everything, I ought to be healthy.
00:39And when there is actually food available, the donkey almost dies of anxiety.
00:43Had I eaten anything, so much wouldn't have still remained to be eaten.
00:48If there is still so much greenery around, it proves I have not eaten anything.
00:52Not only have I not eaten anything, now others will come.
00:55And eat away everything.
00:56The donkey has no idea of its own situation.
00:59But it's very eager to look this side, that side.
01:02This is what happens when you look all over, all around, but not at yourself.
01:09This does not really happen with donkeys.
01:11It happens with humans.
01:13What my mother narrated was just a tale.
01:16It was not about donkeys.
01:18What our thoughts have been the oraciΓ³n in the country.
01:23We'll see you next time.
01:23Today we are heads in segmented conversations.
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