Once Zen, the favourite disciple of Buddha said to his colleagues, “Nobody can defeat me in my whole life”. Immediately the fellow disciples eagerly asked him, “Zen, please reveal your invisible secret, we also do not want to get defeated”.
Zen replied solemnly, “It is impossible to defeat me”.
The fellow disciples became impatient to know Zen's great art of winning because since childhood they always dreamt of becoming invincible. So, they gathered around Zen and pleaded, “Sir, if you tell the secret of winning, we will be very thankful to you for the rest of our lives.”
Zen smiled and replied politely, “Nobody can defeat me in my whole life because I have no intention to win”.
Love can
flower only where there is no intention to win. The mad desire to win itself is
the reason for all the wicked and scheming behaviour patterns of the human
psyche. Today, everybody is carrying
out crimes against humanity in the name of patriotism, nationality, boundary,
cult, group, religion, creed, family, private property and so on. So, what is
the meaning in spending time and energy for the finite pleasure of winning?
Sri Krishna says, "Blessed are pure in heart, for unto them is given the knowledge of God."