Thursday, December 18, 2008
The brighter side
Pain and Agony are there for the perspective of the experience you had...now what has happened is you have looked at the Effect, but why don't you look at the cause....because when you look at the Cause, you will find that if something that happened must have had a brighter side to it....nothing in this world happens with just a bad effect, there is always a brighter side to every Cause.....So try to look around and you would find happiness just on the other side of your pain and agony. - Mayank Trivedi
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A person met an accident, and he is still alive!
Always think of the positive side of the things / events.
A disciple of Buddha, Purna, was going to spread his master's word. Buddha asked, "Where are you going?"
There was a part of Bihar called Sukha. He said, "None of your sannyasins have gone to Sukha yet, I will go there."
Buddha said, "It would be good if you don't go there. The people of that area are dangerous, this is why no one has gone. If they insult you what will happen to you?"
Purna replied, "If they insult me then I will consider myself fortunate that they didn't beat me, they only insulted me."
Buddha said, "And if they beat you what will happen to you Purna?"
Purna replied, "I will consider myself fortunate that they didn't kill me, they only beat me."
Buddha said, "One more question, if they kill you what will happen to you as you are dying?"
Purna replied, "What else could happen? These are such good people that they have released me from living in this body in which I might have committed some mistake. Now no mistake is possible. They have released me from living in this body where my foot may have gone on wrong paths, anything could happen, I could stray off. They have liberated me from this body. I will die filled with kindness for them. I will die full of gratitude for them."
I came across a nice e-mail today, so thought to share it here.
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.”
The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.”
“For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.” Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”
Each of us has our own unique flaw… But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
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