A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.
But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."
The
student went to the field, and went through the first row, he saw one
big wheat, but he wonders... maybe there is a bigger one later.
Then he saw another bigger one... But maybe there is an even bigger one waiting for him.
Later,
when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he starts to
realize that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he saw, he
knows he had missed the biggest one, and he regretted it.
So, he went back to the teacher empty handed.
The
teacher told him, "this is love... You keep looking for a better one,
but later you realize, that you have already missed the person..."
"What is marriage then?" the student asked.
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back.
But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."
The
student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to repeat
the previous mistake, when he reached the middle of the field, he picked one medium corn that he feels satisfied with, and goes back to
the teacher.
The teacher told him, "This time you brought a corn back.
You looked for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe
this is the best one you can get... This is marriage."
Happy Valentine's Day
Friday, February 14, 2014
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Can you hear me now?
Why people shout when angry....
A Hindu saint, who was visiting the river Ganges to take bath, found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked.
"Why do people in anger shout at each other?"
Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, "Because we lose our calm, we shout."
"But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner," asked the saint.
Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples. Finally the saint explained...
"When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.
What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small…"
The saint continued, "When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other."
He looked at his disciples and said. "So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return."
A Hindu saint, who was visiting the river Ganges to take bath, found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked.
"Why do people in anger shout at each other?"
Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, "Because we lose our calm, we shout."
"But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner," asked the saint.
Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples. Finally the saint explained...
"When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.
What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small…"
The saint continued, "When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other."
He looked at his disciples and said. "So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return."
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