A Lesson from Nature

[chandresh_kumar]

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral:Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don't judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later

[Saille]

Tashi delek, Chandresh and all,

It's a beautiful story, but the moral you wrote at the last gave me pause. It's so true that we tend to focus upon our pain, instead of our pleasures. Our failures, rather than on our successes.

We do tend to define ourselves in terms of the things and times in which we weren't who we truly are, or had a difficult time. Then we take those wounds and we keep rubbing at them, re-opening them if they begin to heal.

Do we really feel that if we allow ourselves to move forward that we'll do it wrong all over again? If we have learned from our mistakes, if we have survived the storms, we should learn to celebrate our lessons and our survival.

This is a wonderful message of which I needed the reminder. Thank you.

Namaste.

[chandresh_kumar]

Tashi Delek!! Greetings!! Saille!

How beautfully you describe this, every word touches.

I agree with you, many times we live in false world, created by us, which may be painic, by remembering old worst days. Only one line I would like to add, bad days are require to remeber, when someone feels over successful and wanting to omit any ego.

Simultaneously, when we feel bad days, we need to feel essense of Good Days also.. Both are necessary to control on our emotions...

I am very agree with you, we must have all lessons from past in our hands and then move ahead. It'll give us power of standing.

Your post is heart-touching and very practical.

Namaste.. Love and Light

[Saille]

Tashi delek,

Chandresh, yes! Exactly what I've been meditating about for awhile now, and discovering new things to explore. The key to everything, I believe, is balance. All things must be in balance.

Yes, certainly, we need to find and practice unconditional Love (and Light is Love in motion). And we must therefore, as is in the Five Reiki Precepts, practice compassion for all sentient beings.

But balance in good time and bad is so important. And it is when we're too ego-confident during the good times, and rest upon our success. It is when we're so mired in problems that we can't remember earlier successes. These are times when we must ground and center, and weather the storms, or remember during those wonderful times that we never get where we are alone.

I so enjoy and learn from all the posts at THC, and always look forward to reading yours.

Namaste, indeed!