This is a beautiful story about consciousness.
One day Gautam Buddha and his disciple, Ananda, are passing from one village to another village. On the way, a fly sits on Buddha’s forehead. He was talking with Ananda – he continued talking, just as you would have done, and moved his hand to make the fly go away. Then suddenly he stopped and again moved his hand … very consciously, although there was no fly.
Ananda asked, ”What are you doing?”
He said, ”I am showing you that you can act unconsciously, the way I acted, and you can act consciously. When you act consciously there is grace and there is beauty and there is you. When you act unconsciously, it is just acting in sleep.”
