A young crown prince was proposed by Buddha. He had seen all kinds of gratification in his life; he had lived only for fulfillment. Then he became a bhikshu, a monk. All the other bhikshus were very much astonished about his conversion.
They implied,”This young prince is becoming a bhikshu! He has never gone out of his palace; he has never walked without his chariot; the path he used to walk on would be covered with silk carpets! But now he wants to become a monk! What kind of foolishness is he thinking of doing?”
Buddha said that man’s mind always moves between extremes – from one extreme to the other. Man’s mind never stops in the middle. Just as a pendulum...
