Dissolving Worries

Dissolving Worries

Once a young man came to a revered teacher, who was seated under a tree near a beautiful lake, and asked for the solution for his unhappiness. After some minutes of conversation the old master kindly instructed the visitor to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink a few mouthfuls. “How does it taste?” the teacher asked. “Awful,” said the apprentice after he had spat out the revolting liquid a few paces away. The teacher chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the youngster swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man told him, “Now drink from the lake.” As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked him again, “How does it taste?” “Good!” he replied. “Do you taste the salt?” asked the Master. “No,” said the young man. The Master sat beside the troubled youth, took his hands, and said, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the level of ‘pain we taste’ depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.

My Message

Once you broaden your outlook, and once you stop looking only at yourself and your own miseries and see life as a whole and the many things without which you would not be what you are today – your friends, family, hobbies, nature around you, then you could become the lake and the things that bring you down will dissolve like the salt. Many people seem to prefer to grumble and complain about their lives, society and how tough things are getting. I think it is always important to be able to rise above the drama of your own situation and see the big picture of life and to always figure out smarter ways to move forward. Yes, life has it's many bits of sorrows, struggles, pains and sufferings, but If you look at it with a magnifier then you wont learn much from it..Look at it with trust and confidence, always have the greater picture in mind and all will dissolve like the salt in the lake.

May you have an awesome week!
Darren Zwiers

The Quote:

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday".  Author Unknown