An aging Hindu master sent his apprentice to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.
“How does it taste?” the master asked.
“Bitter,” spit the apprentice.
The master laughed and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. Again he asked the apprentice to drink it. The master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Fresh,” replied the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.
“No,” answered the young man.
The master replied, “The pain of life is pure salt - no more and no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things….. Stop being in a glass. Become a lake.”
~ Unknown ~
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