
Dhammapada – Flowers: 4
“The bee gathers nectar from the flower
Without marring its beauty or perfume.
So let the master settle, and wander.”
Lets learn from teachings of spiritual and scared books, but do not get marry to it. Learn the meaning of the teachings, apply it, practice it, make it a reality to yourself, but do not let it become an idol in your mind. The goal is to have no attachment to anything, even spiritual teachings. Because attachment, lead to problems, doctrines, dogmas, divisions, pride and ignorance. Do not be like the old man that yells in the village, yelling “Drink water now! This is the only way to the well. And if you do not drink from this well, you will surely die.” And after 90 years living, the old man died, his young son discovered that the water from the well that his father was preaching about, was actually flowing from a river bank down the road, that all people had access to. Every body in the village had different ways of collecting this water, with buckets, with boxes, with jars or bags, but they all collected the same water and drank from the same river bank.
Drink and drink some more, but be open to other river banks because they flow out the same water. Be open minded and drink the water of truth with other followers of the truth, and become ONE with the village.
Do not label yourself, just be, or just “bee.”

