Self-defeating worldly hopes - a moment of mindful relax

Chapter I - Self Analysis

Section I: ways of the world

 11. Self defeating wordly hopes

A milk man, while going to the market to sell milk, became absorbed with the dreams of his future.

He thought that with the profits he would purchase some ducks, that the ducks would give birth to a number of ducklings which he might be able to sell for sufficient profit to enable him to invest in a cow.

The cow would calve a number of times within a few years and would thus enable him to purchase a horse and even an elephant; as he made the appropriate movements with his body, the milk pot slipped from his head and broke into pieces. Thus all his hopes were shattered like the pot.