Maybe I am getting a lot of gyan these days from all sides, because this morning something flashed to me. Almost all spiritual wisdom may be there just in front of our eyes in our kitchen and we don't notice it!
So here goes.
- There may be gas in the cylinder, just like there is a lot of ready insights available around at your finger tips. But unless you have the spark of interest, the fire of knowledge won't light up.
- Whatever you cook in the kitchen can only be containing all the groceries you have brought in, just like your path is dictated by your collective karma and samskaras.
- The maturing of wisdom is like cooking in a pressure cooker. It takes time and happens inside, you can't hurry it. The inner transformation causes surely heat and pressure, but you can't release it in a hurry if you want the cooking done. It is an inner experience.
- Have you ever thought of it? Nobody made a glass pressure cooker. Similarly your spiritual journey is private and not for showing off.
- All claims of how great the cooking is can be tested by just one bite. That is true for a man's wisdom too... he doesn't have to produce certificates.
- Cooking from a recipe book is never going to be successful, because you haven't internalised the process.
- What is the role of the master? The one who taught you the basics of good cooking may not be around to correct you at every step. But you can feel their presence and hear their words if you are sincere inside your head.
- Kitchen knives should be sharp. Be decisive in all your actions.
- You can't put cooking on autopilot except for some basics. Your attention is primary. Same with meditation.
- Today's induction stoves cook without fire. They work because the vessel is humble - made of basic iron and not fancy. Similarly masters can work silently and without display if I am humble.
- Spices and salt are only the dressing. It is not the cooking. Wisdom dressed up in different messages can all look different but the inside truth is what matters.
- Never serve a dish unless you have tasted it. Never dish out wisdom until and unless you have tested it in your own actual experience and life.
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