Other People's Weight.

[Black_Bird]

There is an old buddhist proverb that goes something like this:

Once, a teacher and a student were walking from their temple to the city. They came across a man who claimed to be a city official whose cart had lost a wheel. The teacher invited the man to walk with them, but he city official scoffed at his offer, explaining that the teacher should do his public duty and carry him into the city. The teacher bent down and took the man upon his shoulders and walked him all the way to the city, criticised and berated every step of the way by the ingrateful city official. When they had reached the city, the teacher let the official down and bid him good bye.

Leaving the city, the student asked of his teacher, "Why did you carry that ingrate into the city? Do you not care that he spat in your hair and called you vile names?"

To which the teacher replied, "I put the man down in the city, I carry him no more; Why are you still?"

 

[Rambling Rose]

Most timely, grasshopper. Point taken.

 

[Black_Bird]

Dum Dee Dum Dum *BUMP* *BUMP*

 

[SweetBrat73]

Ok...maybe it's just too early for me to be reading...which I think it is cause nothing is making sense that I read right now...but I don't get it and don't understand what that post was all about.


Brat

 

[Black_Bird]

Ok...maybe it's just too early for me to be reading...which I think it is cause nothing is making sense that I read right now...but I don't get it and don't understand what that post was all about.


Brat

The teacher didn't get angry or upset... nor is he going to hold hate in his heart for that man.
The student, on the other hand, is angry and upset - the weight of that man is still on his shoulders.

Hatred is it's own revenge - it slowly kills the hater.

 

[JennyOmanHill]

The teacher didn't get angry or upset... nor is he going to hold hate in his heart for that man.
The student, on the other hand, is angry and upset - the weight of that man is still on his shoulders.
Hatred is it's own revenge - it slowly kills the hater.

Thanks BB for this thread. It's a very good story on what I am still trying to do in my life. It's so true to let hatred go rather than letting it weigh you down. (Most times it's easier said than done though!)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the nice thread - I needed this today........

 

[sigh]

thanks from me too, black bird

timely and meaningful

 

[Dhalgren]

Freaky dude...

I just told that proverb to a friend of mine at work who was going on and on about something that was over for everybody else..when it never involved him in the first place.


Funny..you often say things I've just said.

 

[hatara]

Anger only hurts those that hold it in their heart. When you let it go you free yourself the other person still has themselves to live with and sometimes being free and leaving them the same is the best revenge.

 

[Georgia Girl]

Thank you for the fresh perspective BB. It is much appreciated.

Dawn

 

[Gingersnap]

You drain your own energy when you hate. It is the stuff, I am convinced that makes people ill. The term sick to the soul is very true. To constantly bathe a wound in venom is not the way to heal with healthy tissue. You have to pull in and nurse yourself to heal. Avoid the noxious and trivial distractions. Let go of the poisen and heal. Know that peace of releasing that which is killing you.

Just my humble attempt at being a grasshopper too.

 

[Black_Bird]

Freaky dude...

I just told that proverb to a friend of mine at work who was going on and on about something that was over for everybody else..when it never involved him in the first place.


Funny..you often say things I've just said.

Great minds think a like... or so they say.