Anger

Buddha was walking into the city market one day, and near the city entrance an old bitter man was sitting on a box glaring at Buddha, who carried a bright smile on his face. At the sight of him the old man started cursing Buddha, telling him how pretentious he was, how much better he thought he was and how he was not worth of the air he breathed. But Buddha simply smiled and kept walking to the market to get what he needed.

The next day Buddha returned to the market and once again the old man was there, and this time his cursing intensified, screaming and yelling at Buddha as he walked by, cursing his mother, father and everyone else in his life.

This went on for the rest of the week, and finally as the Buddha was leaving the market the man came up to him, as his curiosity had gotten the best of him. "Buddha, every day you come here smiling and every day I curse your name, I curse your family, and I curse everything you believe in", the old man said. "But every day you enter this city with a smile knowing that I await you with my harsh tongue, and everyday you leave through the same entrance with the same smile. I know by speaking to you now that you are not deaf, so why do you keep on smiling while I do nothing but scream the worst things I can think of to your face?"

Buddha, with the same smile still on his face, looked at the old man and asked, "If I were to bring you a gift tomorrow morning wrapped in a beautiful box, would you accept it?", to which the old man replied, "Absolutely not, I would take nothing from the likes of you!". "Ah ha", the Buddha replied, "Well if I were to offer you this gift and you were to refuse, then who would this gift belong to?". "It would still belong to you, of course", answered the old man. "And so the same goes with your anger, when I choose not to accept your gift of anger, it will still remain with you only"

How to Pray

From the speech of Fr.Jospeh Puthanpurakkal


1. Pray with great belief (really belive that whatever u r praying, u will get)
2. Pray with sacrifice (pray with fasting, on knee, etc)
3. Pray with crying
4. Pray with persistence
5. Pray with humbleness

If parents pray deeply, keeping their hands raised and spread, their children will not get spoiled
If wife pray like that husband will change
If husband pray like this, wife will change

We need to listen to God, instead of always pushing our petitions.
Some times God will have better plans for us. So whatever we are asking he may not give to us.
Some times, he will delay because right time not yet come.

Today when I was coming to Office saw a seen. Some monkeys, big ones walking over a TV cable wire which is span from one side of the road to other side above the traffic. They were very carefully, but was easily walking over the cable. The noticing part of each of these big monkeys carry one small monkey they were clinching to belly portion of the big monkey facing upward. And safely all monkeys with kids reached other side of the road above the heavy traffic road.

What came to my mind was this is the way our life. Big mokey is Jesus, life problems and difficulties are the heavy traffic and we are the small monkey kids.
If we strongly clinch on Jesus, nothing wrong will happen to us and we can cross the road easily.
We need not look down and get worry about the heavey traffic and height.

Song from my daughter

Chaithaanoru soothrakaaran
pammi pammi varununden

Kayethi ennae pidikaan
thathi thathi varununden

Illa illa. Ennae kittukayilla
Njaan Yesuvintae paithal
Yesuvintae Swantham.