I read this story in the October – December 2008 edition of “SanghSandesh”, which is the magazine published by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (UK):
There was a young student-archer who became so good in his art that he could shoot an arrow into two with the next shot. He began to boast that he was a greater archer than his guru,
One day his guru, an old man in his 70’s, asked the youth to accompany him on a trip across the hills. The journey was uneventful until they came to a deep chasm.
A single log spanned the chasm. The guru walked down to the centre of the log, un-shouldered his bow and taking an arrow shot it into a tree on the other side. His next shot split the first arrow in two.
“Now it’s your turn” he said, walking back to where his student was standing. The youth stepped gingerly on the log and very slowly and carefully made his way to the middle. But his heart was in his mouth. He knew that if he lost his footing, he would plunge to his death. His hands trembled as he strung an arrow into his bow. Preoccupied with the danger he was in, he found it hard to focus on the target. Consequently when he let go of the arrow, it missed the tree altogether. Whimpering, he turned around.
“Help me!” he shouted to his guru. “I’ll fall!”
The old man walked up to him, took his hand and stepping backwards led him to safety. Neither of them said a word on the return journey but the boy had much to think about.
He had realised that to be a master of his art it was not enough to know how to control the bow, he had to learn how to control his mind too.
Many thanks to HSS (UK) for the use of this story!
Right, well as you can tell from the last post I just added TweetSuite to my blog and it’s brilliant! I just added a post as per normal, saved everything as per normal, and published it… yes… as per normal. The only difference is that it updated Twitter automatically. For all those who haven’t caught up on what Twitter is, it’s MicroBlogging. A small post worth 140 characters giving a short sharp concise message to everyone on what you’re up to! Check out my post about Twitter.
Here’s how to add TweetSuite to your blog. Head on down to http://danzarrella.com/beyond-tweetbacks-introducing-tweetsuite.html and download the plugin (You’ll find the link part way down the page).
Then once it’s downloaded, log in to your hosting area for your blog, find the directory for your site, then go to the contents directory, and then the plugin directory. Upload it here in Zip format (using Zip upload) and it will automatically extract.
After this, head back to your blog admin area, e.g. www.lifeof7.com/admin and get to the area where your plugins are (usually the ‘plugins’ tab). Activate the TweetSuite plugin and go to the Settings tab. Make sure everything is to your liking, insert your Twitter username and password, and save.
Then as normal, create a post! Remember, when you create a post, the title of it will show up on Twitter as a Tweet, and it will turn the long URL into a ‘TinyURL’ for people to click on.
Simple!
P.S. Don’t forget to create a Twitter account before you do all this otherwise you’ll be stuck halfway!
On the evening of 9th February 2009, a London home owner and his son discovered a leak in their upstairs bathroom. On inspection they found it to be caused by the heavy rain…
You might think this was part of a news headline. And you wouldn’t be alone in thinking that.
This happened to me just 10 minutes before writing this post.
I went to brush my teeth before bed and I noticed there was a pool of water on the floor near the sink. Now being in my own world most of the time my first reaction was “Oh… Must have been me opening the water too much” but then I thought that there was no way I could have splashed THAT much water! My gaze turned to a shelf unit next to the sink which was about hip height. It was full of water! Automatically my gaze carried on upwards and I realised the fan (which is mounted on the ceiling) was dripping. My first action was to open the loft up. The next was to shout to my dad while I was climbing the ladder.
It only turned out to be a small leak but it’s a big thing if the ceiling gets wet and comes down!
All that was needed was to clean it up a bit and put a bucket and sort it out in the morning. I can’t do much more with it at the moment so I thought I would write a post about it.
My words of advice to you guys is that if it rains really hard for a long time, just head up into the loft and check your tiles. It will only take around 5 – 10 minutes to check everything’s ok but at least you have peace of mind that nothing else will happen, and if it is going to you’re prepared for it.
