This beautiful story to be reflected began in a remote place, specifically where a monastery of Buddhist priests was being built. One day, a restless young man who wanted to learn from the teachers came to the site.
His desire was to become wise and to know the mechanisms that governed their lives, priests and teachers welcomed him.
- The young man spent time doing service activities for everyone.
- He cleaned the stables.
- Served the food and didn’t let the dust accumulate.
- He was also responsible for feeding the animals.
- Caring for them and ensuring their well-being.
After a while, the wisest people in the region realized that the young man was humble and obedient, so they decided it was time to promote him.
According to this beautiful story to reflect on, one of the wisest priests was in charge of the formation of young people, the disciple was happy.
The teacher told him that they should go out and travel the world, because the great secrets of life would be in the way. They prepared supplies and clothes and left very early with an uncertain fate.
“We can’t become what we want to be if we’re still who we are today. “Max De Pree.
Days passed and, with the little clothes they were wearing, tiredness accumulated. One day, as the night threatened to swallow the day, they saw a house in the distance and headed there to ask for food and shelter.
However, the inhabitants of this humble house could offer little, the walls were barely standing, and the surrounding fields were deserted, yet the teacher told his disciple to knock on the door and ask for help, and the young man obeyed.
The family welcomed them with open arms. They warned that they were very poor, but that they would still find a place to sleep. They also shared dinner.
When everyone was at the table, the teacher asked them what they lived on. They replied that they had a cow. He provided them with milk, with which they made cheese and butter. They sold everything in town so they managed to make a living.
The master was silent. Then he said that he and his disciple would leave very early, thanked him for the kindness, dinner and shelter, then fell asleep until the first flashes of dawn appeared, the teacher and the student got up and ready to go.
According to this story, as soon as they both left the modest house, the teacher told his disciple, “The time has come to learn your first great lesson. “
Then she asked him to go to the stable, unseat the cow and take it, the disciple hesitated, how was it possible for her teacher to ask for something like that, what kind of lesson was stealing from a humble family?, as usual, obeyed.
They both left with the cow. They had walked a few miles when they reached a dangerous place, where there was a ravine, then the teacher asked the disciple to throw the cow into the ravine, again the disciple hesitated.
What did you gain from doing this harm to this family?At that time, the student did not know the meaning of this story to reflect.
The young man did what his teacher asked him to do, took the cow that resisted, and fulfilled with great effort the orders of his master, the cow fell and the two went their way, the master smiled, and the disciple did not know why. I didn’t understand what kind of lesson it was either.
Teacher and disciple have visited many other places, in each of them, the young student learned many lessons about the secrets of life.
Several years passed and the sage in charge of the young man’s education thought that the stage of formation was over, according to this beautiful story, the two returned to the monastery.
The young man was very calm and quite happy, he felt like someone else. However, the memory of this humble family was still flying from him, to whom his livelihood had been stolen.
As much as I thought about it, I didn’t find the meaning of this lesson, so as soon as he had the chance, he went back to the place where it all happened, I wanted to apologize.
When he arrived, the place looked little like his memories. Instead of the humble old house, there was now a beautiful country house.
The abandoned fields of the past were now fertile and full of life. The young man cautiously knocked on the door and was greeted by the hosts of the past, now very happy.
They were very happy to see you again. They said the cow disappeared shortly after his death and that necessity forced them to work in the field to establish and establish new business relationships.
They had done well and this is how they began to progress, so the young man understood his teacher’s teachings and understood that this beautiful story was actually a beautiful lesson.