Readiness To Receive: The Story Of Sāriputta🤲

A new month dawns, not with thunder ⛈️, but a quiet invitation 🍃. Join us as we explore the profound story of Sariputa, a seeker who, despite his wisdom 📚, found his deepest truth not in grand teachings, but in a monk's simple presence 🧘‍♂️. Discover what it means to receive what's already arriving 🎁, to let go of knowing 👋, and to bow to something greater than ourselves 🙏. What whispers of truth have you missed lately? 🤫✨ #NewBeginnings #OpenHands #ReceiveTheWhisper #SpiritualJourney #InnerPeace

Episode Transcript

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A new month begins not with chaos, not with fire, but with a
quiet invitation. This is an invitation to
receive, to open, to be ready. Not for what we expect, but for

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what is already arriving or uncertainty.
In the Theravada tradition, there is a story.
A story of a secret, a philosopher, a man who knew much

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and yet was waiting for something deeper.
His name is Sarah Puta, born into a Brahmin family, raised in
the traditional way of rituals and reason.

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Alongside his friend Mogulana, he wandered from teacher to
teacher, collecting truths like stones, heavy, polished, but not
yet alive. Something hadn't spoken to him

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as yet where realization had occurred.
However, one day, on a quiet road near Rajagaha, Sariputa saw
a monk. Not preaching, not performing,
just walking. His name was Asaji, one of the

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Buddha's earliest disciples. His presence was stillness, his
silence, his sermon. Now here comes the moment of
recognition. Saruputta approached him and
asked. What is your teaching?

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Asaji replied humbly. Of all things that arise from a
cause, the Tatagata or Buddha has told the cause and also what
the association is. This is the teaching of the
great Recluse, otherwise known as Buddha.

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That was all. No doctrine, no debate, just a
seed. And in that moment, Sariputa
received not with his intellect,but with his readiness.
His mind opened, his heart bowed, and something ancient

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within him revived. Not a teaching beneath this
story. This is not just a tale of a
monk. It is a mirror.
A mirror for you, for me, for anyone standing at the edge of a

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new beginning. For example, this month, changes
will come, challenges may arise.Sariputa was already wise, but
wisdom alone wasn't enough. He had to be ready.
Ready to let go of knowing, ready to be moved by stillness.

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Ready to bow to something greater than himself.
There we find our true selves. So I invite you, as this new
month unfolds, what truth have you heard lately that you didn't

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let in? What presence have you passed by
because it didn't come dressed in Thunder?
What seed is waiting, not to be grasped, but to be received?
Like Sariputa, may you walk withopen hands, May you meet your

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Asaji. And may you recognize the truth,
not when it shouts, but when it whispers.
This make the readiness to receive the happening in our
lives. This is your fullness guide.
Signing off.