Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Gold Inside Us

Long times ago, in Egypt lived a famous mystical person name Zun-Nun. A young man came to visit him and asked "Teacher, I do not understand why people like you dress in such a simple way, Isn't it necessary to dress neatly, not only for performance but also for other
reasons?

The mystical only smiled and took his ring from one of his fingers, and said "Young friend, I will answer your question, but first do one thing for me, take this ring and go to the market across this street, can you sell this for one chip of gold?

Having looked at Zun-Nun's dull ring, the young man became doubtful. "One chip of gold, I am not sure this ring could be sold at that price."

"Try first, young man, who knows you did it." The Young man went to the market quickly. He offered the ring to the textile, vegetable, meat, fish traders, and the others. The fact was that no body was willing to pay for a chip of Gold. He went back to Zun-Nun residence and reported "Teacher, no body was brave to offer more than one chip of silver."

With a wise smile Zun-Nun said, "Now go to the Gold Shop at the back of this street. Show this to the owner or to the gold trader. Don't give your price just listen how much he will pay for this ring."

The Young man went to the shop mentioned and returned with a different expression from his face. He then reported "Teacher, the traders in the market really do not know the value of this ring, the gold trader offer this ring for one thousand of gold, And the value of this ring was one thousands times from what the traders in the market offer.

Zun-Nun just smiled subtly and spoke softly, "That was the answer of your questions my friend, "Someone cannot be valued only from his dress . 'The traders in the market' gave value like that. But not r "The gold traders"

The gold and Diamond inside someone only could be seen and valued if you could look at the inner soul. It needs a heart to see, and it needs a process. We cannot see it from the words or attitude that only seen for a while. Many time what we think as gold, may only be brass, but a brass maybe gold.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Importants of Effort in ur Life.

This is the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's
owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure
but how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he
was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when
he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very
carefully, from top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he
would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man
searched into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped
something. & instantly, the engine lurched into life & got started.

He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later,
the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand Rs.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"
So they wrote the old man a note saying "Please send us an
Itemized bill."
The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer ..Rs 2.00
Knowing where to .......Rs 9998.00

Total Rs Ten Thousand Only 10,000/-

Moral of The Story:
Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life,
`Makes all the difference'' .

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

How to make Decisions.

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks,
One still in use while the other disused.Only one child played
on the disused track,& the rest on the used track.

The train is coming, & you are just beside the track interchange.
You can make the train change its course to the disused track
& save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the one
Child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed.

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make......
Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, &
sacrifice only one child. I guess. Exactly, I thought the same way
initially, because to save most of the children at the expense of
only one child was rational decision most people would make, morallyy
& emotionally.

But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the
disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe
place? Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant
friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office,
community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the
minority is often been sacrificed for the interest of the majority,
no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how far
sighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who choses
not to play with the rest on the operational track was sacrificed; no
& no one would shed a tear for him.

The course of the train should not be changed because we believed
that the kids playing on the operational track should have known
very well that track was still in use, & that they should have run
away if they heard the train's sirens.

If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die
because he never thought the train could come over to that track!.
That track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the
train was diverted to the track, it could put the lives of all
passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few
kids by sacrificing one child,U might end up sacrificing hundreds
of people to save these few kids.

We are all aware of that,''life is full of tough decisions that
need to be made; we may not realize that hasty decisions may not
be always the right one.

"Remember that what's right isn't always popular………….
& what's popular isn't always right…………."