A woodcutter had to struggle hard to earn two meals a day. He met a monk. The monk advised him, "Don’t stop at the edge of the forest, go right in. one day’s work will fetch you one month’s food. The woodcutter followed the advice. Deep with in the forest, he found sandalwood trees. He was very happy. He expressed his gratitude to the monk.
The monk advised again, “Take the risk of going still deeper into the forest. A day work will fetch you food for six months will. This time he found a silver mine. He thanked the monk again. The monk said, “ If you trust me and go still deeper into the forest, one day’s work will make you earn enough to fetch your food for a life time. “ This also turned out to be true. For he found a gold mine.
The woodcutter wondered, “why then does the monk still stay at the edge of the forest a not venture into the forest, as he has been advising me?” He expressed his doubts to the monk. The monk replied, “If you want to be eternally happy sit under this tree and I will teach you to go within. Then you will be eternally happy”.
To be an outer winner; one has to explore to the outside world. To be an inner winner one has to go within oneself. The kingdom of heaven is within us
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
hi,
you left a footprint at my blog;
thank you for leaving a nice response.
What you have said is true. The search for happiness should be inside and not outside.
I hope u'll keep visiting my blog.
Wow. Nice thought. True that if one has to be really happy, it should be from within !!!
Post a Comment