Once an unhappy young man came to an old master and told he had a very sad life and asked for a solution.
The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.
“How does it taste?” – the Master asked.
“Terrible.” – spat the apprentice.
The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake.
The old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the Master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Good!” – remarked the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” – asked the Master.
“No.” – said the young man.
The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the ‘pain’ depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
It contains a great teachings to learn lively in this beautiful world, please.
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I am writing this before I do what this post inspires me to do–really consider it. I think I have just learned something really enormous.
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i absolutely love this ) peace, beth
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very nice
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Thank you..
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Beautiful ~ thank you. I found you via Mimi when she reblogged your post.
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Oh.. thats cool. I would thank Mimi for the reblog.. 🙂 Thanks for visiting..
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ah, perspective rears its lovely head
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Thanks for the feedback 🙂
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loved this – I shall be looking at the lakes and not the glass of water
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🙂 That’s wise choice.. Thanks for taking your time to leave a feedback
Peace and Love
Din
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reblogged on waitingforthekarmatruck.com..
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Reblogged this on Waiting for the Karma Truck and commented:
What I particularly like about this story is the idea of expanding one’s perspective when feeling sorrow. Typically, when I’m sad or feeling bummed, I contract, making my world smaller and my sorrow much larger. I love the visual of ‘being the lake’…
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Thanks for the Reblog Mimi.. 🙂 and sharing your feedback
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