Be a Lake

[Muhammad Asad]

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. "Awful," 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!"

[st. tijani]

...Muh'd..ur story is short
but it teach us good lesson.
Beautiful advice..

[Cynosure]

"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!"


Excellnet and so Real
Superb Mod.

[Champion]

very nice

[Gorgage]

Keep it Up
Very Fine piece of sharable

[Muhammad Asad]

Thnx to st. tijani, cynosure, champion and gorgage.

[Rani_Pakistanii]

very nice

[Muhammad Asad]

waise ap log nice to keh rahe hain likin agar ek sentence mein jo ap ne is post se message liya hai likh dain to acha ho ga aur humare pas kuch aur achay ideas bhi a jayein gay!