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Appreciate the beauty around you...
Appreciate the diversity around you...
Everyone has their own way...
You go yours... let them go theirs
Let them be "right' in their own world...
You be you in yours...
Appreciation....
when you find mean people appreciate their intensity and just move on...
But it is ok to hiss... if you need too...just be calm inside inside...
The Snake...
This one slithered one day up to scantily clad old man with a long beard,
he coiled ready to strike - anticipating an stick or stone attack on himself...
But he found the old man just calmly sitting, a little smile on his face, eyes half open...
So the snake sat coiled and waited to see what would happen.
Nothing happened, after several hours, after several days,...
It was getting cold fall time...so the snake inched closer and finally after no harmful actions from the old man sitting...
he climbed up into his lap.... It was comfy and warm...
The old man the next morning said to snake , thank you for keeping me company, I must go now, is the something I can give you?
Then snake just said he wanted to have the peace the old man has... The saintly old man agreed and gave him instructions on what to do.
One these was of course do no harm - don't bite anyone...the old man left.
Years latter he returned to the same place and inquired in the village about his student the snake?
No one had seen him for several years, none were bitten either...
so the Saint sat in the same spot and waited.
After a few days the snake slowly crept up to him - all battered and disfigured...sat in the saints lap...
With a twinkle in his eyes the Old saint asked him what had happened?
The snake explained that when the villagers discovered he would no longer bite,
Kids just tormented him, beating him with sticks and stones....
so he just crawled under a rock and hid...
The saint chuckled and said gently
~ "I didn't say you couldn't hiss !"
Hissing is OK, anger is not...
It's the inner state that matters....
Appreciation
Hiss if necessary...
Appreciate the diversity around you...
Everyone has their own way...
You go yours... let them go theirs
Let them be "right' in their own world...
You be you in yours...
Appreciation....
when you find mean people appreciate their intensity and just move on...
But it is ok to hiss... if you need too...just be calm inside inside...
The Snake...
This one slithered one day up to scantily clad old man with a long beard,
he coiled ready to strike - anticipating an stick or stone attack on himself...
But he found the old man just calmly sitting, a little smile on his face, eyes half open...
So the snake sat coiled and waited to see what would happen.
Nothing happened, after several hours, after several days,...
It was getting cold fall time...so the snake inched closer and finally after no harmful actions from the old man sitting...
he climbed up into his lap.... It was comfy and warm...
The old man the next morning said to snake , thank you for keeping me company, I must go now, is the something I can give you?
Then snake just said he wanted to have the peace the old man has... The saintly old man agreed and gave him instructions on what to do.
One these was of course do no harm - don't bite anyone...the old man left.
Years latter he returned to the same place and inquired in the village about his student the snake?
No one had seen him for several years, none were bitten either...
so the Saint sat in the same spot and waited.
After a few days the snake slowly crept up to him - all battered and disfigured...sat in the saints lap...
With a twinkle in his eyes the Old saint asked him what had happened?
The snake explained that when the villagers discovered he would no longer bite,
Kids just tormented him, beating him with sticks and stones....
so he just crawled under a rock and hid...
The saint chuckled and said gently
~ "I didn't say you couldn't hiss !"
Hissing is OK, anger is not...
It's the inner state that matters....
Appreciation
Hiss if necessary...
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