Let’s Suppose That Rain Washes Out A

Anthony De Mello

Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. who is feeling negative? the rain? or you? what’s causing the negative feeling? the rain or your reaction? when you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. it’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. the pain is in your knee, not in the table. the mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. reality is not problematic. problems exist only in the human mind. we might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.