SALT & WATER
An Indian old master was fed up with his apprentice's constant complaining about everything. One day he sent his apprentice to get salt. When the apprentice returned, unhappy with everything in his life, the old master told him to throw a handful of salt into a glass of water and drink it. The apprentice did as the old man told him, but as soon as he drank he began to spit out his mouth.
- "How does it taste?" ' asked the old man angrily:
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“Pain,” he replied.
This time the master took his apprentice by the arm and took him out. He quietly took him to the shore of the lake, and told his apprentice this time to throw a handful of salt into the lake and drink water from the lake. The apprentice, who did as he was told, asked the same question while wiping the water from the corners of his mouth with his arm:
- "How does it taste?" “Refreshing,” replied the young apprentice.
- “Have you tasted the salt?” asked the old man, "No," replied his apprentice.
Then the old man sat down next to his apprentice, who was kneeling by the water, and said:
- “The sufferings of life are like salt, neither too little nor too much. The amount of suffering is always the same. But the bitterness of this suffering depends on what is put into it.
When you are in pain, all you have to do is expand your feelings about the thing that hurts.
That's why you stop being a glass, try to be a lake.
