Taming the Cobra

Hi, it is nice to be with you again. Has anyone seen how a Cobra catcher tames a Cobra? Well, I have and it is done where the tamer initially tires the Cobra by getting it to keep striking at something in the left hand, but unable to do due to quick movements of the catcher and tire the animal. Constantly striking in the direction of the stimulus makes the Cobra Vertebral column tired and the speed is lost and the person will catch the head of Cobra and then push it into a bag held in the left hand, till it is inside.

Our mind too is like a Cobra. If you allow it to sting then you become a slave to it. It will say, go to that hotel for dinner, buy that car, travel to that country for holidays, purchase these cloths, perfumes etc. It will be a never ending thing getting worse each day. Here what you did was to catch the serpent by the tail and it coiled back to bite you putting venom in your system. Now you work according to the Cobra instructions of hared, greed and delusion. But if you catch the Cobra by the neck, then you are in control of it, how? That strategy is termed Mindfulness Meditation. Once you have come to the level where you are steeped in equanimity, the mind will be powerless and cannot control you. So keep at your meditation and reap the good harvest. With Metta Sugath