08/11/2025
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🌐 To learn the art of letting go and withstanding life's storms, a bamboo-like mindset is essential.
Where large trees succumb to strong winds, the bamboo bends and sways gracefully, conquering the storm.
After planting a bamboo plant, no growth is visible for years because its roots spread underground.
The same patience is required in the company's development process.
No growth will be visible for the first few years; during that time, one must have faith that rapid growth will eventually occur. We will put in the effort.
The bamboo mindset encourages patience, flexibility, and resilience. For success, it is essential first to accept failures.
Not to be defeated by them, but to welcome challenges without breaking.
Such a person is mentally flexible, bending with the wind instead of resisting it.
They survive difficult circumstances without being destroyed.
Another unique thing is that bamboo is hollow inside. No other tree is like that.
Your structure is also like bamboo. That is why you must develop inner strength effortlessly.
You can develop this strength through this meditation method.
Tilopa, a Tibetan guru, says: ‘Rest effortlessly with your body like a hollow bamboo.’
Imagine that you are a bamboo, completely hollow inside. When you relax, you feel that you are like a bamboo: empty inside.
And that is precisely how it is: your body is exactly like a bamboo; everything is hollow inside.
Your skin, your bones, your blood, and your flesh are all part of the bamboo, and there is a large space inside, complete hollowness.
When you are completely calm and inactive, with your tongue touching the palate, experiencing no vibrations of thoughts, passively observing the mind, and sitting without waiting for anything in particular,
you will experience a state akin to being like a hollow bamboo.
It's as if time stands still, and suddenly energy begins to flow within you; you are filled with the unknown, the mysterious, and the divine.
Only a hollow bamboo can become a flute, and an unknown power begins to play it.
Once you become empty, there is no obstacle for the divine to enter within you.
Try this: meditate on becoming a hollow bamboo.
You don't need to do any other activity. Suddenly, you feel something descending into your emptiness.
Challenges and failures can strengthen character and build resilience.
Translation of Hindi article published in Hindstan, 3 Nov, 2025
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