Selling ice cream flavoring with a philosophy

Selling ice cream flavoring with a philosophy 

Nihal is his name let me please note before I forget his name. Lovely man not too tall but unbelievably tall in ideas he holds.

You may have visited this place where he sells ice cream, his outlet situated in a very busy and noisy street but people who go passing never forgets to just turn their eyes towards  the shop with too many iced corns facing the street full of some go so fast, some go so slowly, some walk like running, some walk so patiently not forgetting to read all the sides of the streets and people, their faces, some ‘look tired’ ‘ some fresh .

He sells a corn of ice cream just for twenty rupees. The pictures hanging there are seems so calm and quite, you feel like reading them through your eyes and mind, quietly.

You hear ‘chanting pirith or preaching bana from the shop within, always.

For some this place is like a bit of a ‘have a break ’ kind of a place away from busy and tight and heavy loads of work.  People who visit his place to eat and ice cream with a friend or with the child after school or after work, after classes chatting with each other while tasting his ‘vanila and chocolate flavored’ bonded with the corn of holding with hands of most trusted- own, without letting splitting all over due to carelessness  should eat before  melting from the burning of day today life hazards.

The place is not too big but he manages, the ice cream corns are nicely kept a side for his convenience of using when ever his customers comes.

Last time he told me that some children even buy two per day.

Time was around 6.30 I guess I was not that concern about the time at that moment. The town seemed too busy the vehicles moving here and there very quickly and impatiently I would say.

The noises unbearable one side of the town you can hear bana and pirith, including this place but if you walk a little further it is unbearable ‘baila’ ( do not miss understand I like bails but there is a time not mixing one or two choices of music at one particular time) at the nearest discount store next to the super market building. They should think it is the time for pirith they obviously can stop their non stop music for a while. Because the two of the places are too close to each other. I observed.

‘Nugegoda’ is a city that you find various things to be sold, people, different shops retail and whole sale.

After walking for sometime it is not advisable to eat an ice – cream if you were thinking of burning excessive calaries thinking of protecting your ‘levels of health’. I guess I am right here. Right?

I had an ice cream there not because I really wanted I like to see things and hear different things that people discuss when moving from here to there. Not gossiping, it is always interesting to hear the ways of selling things, the words use in selling ice cream or what ever a seller sells.

This is really an interesting place runs by a good hearted person having a smile written always on his face. He recommends that it is so good if you can listen to bana always. You really don’t have to listen to them purposely  the words of dhamma just touch your ears and heart and mind with out giving it a ‘too much of an effort to listen’ ‘you take what ever comes and stays in your heart and mind’ while doing other work important,

 This person let you hear the words possible and no harm hearing words of dhamma for a healthy mind. You can do other things during all these happenings like selling ice cream, talking to your customers that come to your place with different mind settings at different time of a day sometimes having different thinking.

This is not the only place that sells ice cream there are other places too but this place is very different.

He think s that one who always hear dhamma gets good results in business. I have experienced the ‘good results’ from this constant listening to bana pada.

There is one place in Kandy close to ‘the St Anthony’s church. The day that I visited the church it is not Christmas there is a place where they sell ‘candles’ the statues, the religious books, the greetings cards I do not know whether this shop belong to the church or not. The day that I visited there I heard few songs 

Ms Latha walpola’s 

‘namo mariyanee namo mariyanee ’

I don’t know there is something in hearing all these gatha, sloka, the prayers these things adds some ‘spiritual healing to our minds and body I believe.

Mr. Nihal was right I thought while walking back to my residence. Isn’t that wonderful that he maintains his inner mind up to that level living in the heart of a city that shows so much of difference each time we visited, he has not changed his way of selling ice cream I thought every time I visit this place to eat and ice cream.

He still sells ice cream  with a philosophy of good words.