We see the world the way we think it is."
Nick Owen
Personal responsability
A Sultan invited a mullah to go hunting with him and his entourage. But he gave the mullah a camel that was very slow indeed. The mullah said nothing about this. Soon the hunt had left the mullah far behind and after a short time was completely out of sight. Then it began to rain. It rained very hard indeed.
All the members of the hunt got completely soaked. The mullah, on the other hand, quickly dismounted, took off all his clothes, folded them into a neat pile, and sat on them under the camel for the duration of the storm.
When the storm abated, he dressed himself and returned to the Sultan’s palace for lunch. The Sultan and his entourage were amazed that the mullah was completely dry, for even with the speed of their camels they had been unable to find any shelter on the plain. They looked at the mullah with suspicion.
“It was because of the camel you gave me,” he said.
The next day, the mullah was given the fastest camel, and the Sultan took the slow one. Once again it rained. The Sultan, stranded in the middle of the plain, on a camel that moved at the speed of a tortoise, got absolutely drenched. The mullah, on the other hand, repeated the same procedure as the day before. When he returned to the palace he was as dry as a bone.
“This is all your fault,” sneezed the Sultan, “for persuading me to ride this snail of a camel.”
“Perhaps,” replied the mullah, “you took no personal responsibility for the problem of staying dry.”
General source: Sufi tradition
Storytelling
"That laundry is not very clean", she said, "she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments. About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"And so it is with life: "What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge. (from Stitching the world together)
The husband said: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"And so it is with life: "What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge. (from Stitching the world together)
One of the most annoying characteristics of man is to judging the neighbor .For Christians, respecting neighbors is really important in fact one famous doctrine which said Jesus is: “Love thy neighbor as thyself(Bible, Mt 22, 37-39b). This sentence is very important because it induces men to respect each other for a better world. But nowadays the means they are very aggressive with others people, for this reason it is so ravaged by war and racial hatred. This post is very interesting because it e speaks about the problem of perverse opinion using a simple and humorous story. The symbol of the story is the window because it represents our point of view the person according to observed: it has two characteristics, that is to be clean or dirty. In the same way as the window also our point of view can be dirty, and full of unnecessary bias. In this story the wife observed the work of nearby home and always finds a flaw in the laundry, until the husband cleans the window. I think it is belter not to have prejudices about our the neighbors because it increases the discrepancy between the men and then the possibility to be happy in their life.
ReplyDeleteWhy does everyone not watch its own mistakes and imperfections? An example of this problem we can find in a Sicilian proverb: "The groom during his lifetime doesn't look his hump"(which is in Sicilian language :"L'immiruto nta so via u so immu unnu talia").
This is the real problem!
Before you watch the world watch yourself!