“Sometimes people ask you: "When is your birthday?" But you might
ask yourself a more interesting question: "Before that day which is
called my birthday, where was I?"
Ask a cloud: "What is your date of birth? Before you were born, where were you?"
If
you ask the cloud, "How old are you? Can you give me your date of
birth?" you can listen deeply and you may hear a reply. You can imagine
the cloud being born. Before being born it was the water on the ocean's
surface. Or it was in the river and then it became vapor. It was also
the sun because the sun makes the vapor. The wind is there too, helping
the water to become a cloud. The cloud does not come from nothing; there
has been only a change in form. It is not a birth of something out of
nothing.
Sooner or later, the cloud will change into rain or snow
or ice. If you look deeply into the rain, you can see the cloud. The
cloud is not lost; it is transformed into rain, and the rain is
transformed into grass and the grass into cows and then to milk and then
into the ice cream you eat. Today if you eat an ice cream, give
yourself time to look at the ice cream and say: "Hello, cloud! I
recognize you.”
Namaste to You
