By Ahsan
Life comes at you fast. Don’t let it freak you out.
Manolo Vega
Have you felt off or downright sad, given all the stuff we have gone through over the last three years?
Does it seem like the world changes too fast and that “things” are so unpredictable? So much so that you don’t know how to plan for or respond to the constant bits and pieces hurled at you?
Well, perhaps you need to get some perspective from this story I will share with you.
Check it out.
The old Master instructed an unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then drink it.
"How does it taste?" the Master asked.
"Not good at all," spat the apprentice.
The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it into a nearby lake.
The two walked in silence to the lake. When the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man paused and 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?"
"No," said the young man.
The Master sat beside this troubled young man and said, "The pain of life is pure salt, no more, no less.
The amount of pain in life remains the same. But the amount we taste that 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."
The lesson in the story is for all of us to change our internal state. You are not limited to thinking a few thoughts over and over again. The deeper secret in this beautiful story is to expand your thinking.
In all things you experience in life and feel, your thinking makes it so.
That’s it.
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