A beautiful zen story

There was a little boy living far away from in a village..He had no friends..His dad brought him a pet turtle to play with.

Soon the turtle became his best friend and soul mate. He was with the turtle whole day.

One cold morning he noticed that the turtle was not moving and had recoiled in shell whole day it dint come out. Father finally thought he was dead. The boy was devastated. Totally in shambles.

Father could not not see his little boy suffer. So devised a plan to divert his attention. Father told the son to make a big funeral for his turtle. Bring flowers , make arrangements , call people . "come on , start to work" said father.

The boy set about in the arrangements totally focused to have the best funeral possible for his turtle.

The evening came..the boy had worked very hard for the funeral .He was so excited about it. So many people ..little kid. Suddenly in the middle the turtle popped his head out! He wasn't dead at all!

The little boy stopped in his tracks looked at all the arrangements and people gathered..he was so excited. And suddenly the turtle popped his head out! Dismayed he looked at his father and said

"Papa.. can we kill it? "


Moral:

" Is it you I love, or is it the joy I get from loving you?"

GIRLS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND GENTS ARE INTELLIGENT

Someone posted a thread in Orkut with this question ::why we see that "GIRLS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND GENTS ARE INTELLIGENT " ?

I replied in this manner ::

I don't think "GIRLS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND GENTS ARE INTELLIGENT " is true even if you generalize it.

You can call anyone beautiful or intelligent depending upon your definition .We generally find us unable to express ourselves correctly so in simple terms we say "hey that girl is beautiful" , we may mean different at that time . But beautiful encompasses a lot of qualities.

similarly for intelligent . Whom will you call intelligent ? But what you seem to say ( as I think) that boys have more logical skills. That is a biological fact . Similarly girls have better communication skills.

one more reason why we find girls beautiful is because that is our nature . To search for a girl. May b girls don't find other girl as much beautiful as we find them

BTW , the person with highest IQ in the world is a female .

I have thought a lot about intelligence and beautiful . One of the reason is that I have been called intelligent sometimes (really) and I have been asked many times " hey is that girl beautiful ?"( my answer is always no ) .

and what is intelligence ? It is very easy to give some rules for determining it , but it will never be complete . It is very important to see things in their relative frame . Nothing is absolute .

We say someone getting 90% is intelligent . Is that so ? That is more capacity to remember and write articulately . We generally think in short-term , so a decision which may look intelligent now may not look in long-term . What will we call such decisions . And most importantly , what about persons who renounce everything they have and follows a different path . was Buddha intelligent?

and beautiful . What is beauty ? Everybody has his/her own concept of beauty . Even if we will keep definition of beauty strictly physical , at different times ,at different places , different people have defined it in their own way . This is too much of stereotyping.

Living alone

I love living alone . Dreaming and think about this and that . It gives me time to
understand things that are happening around me .

But for last few weeks it has become a problem . Maybe I need change or maybe it is just a phase . But these days I am not living my life . Instead of flowing like water it is drifting slowly and slowly.

Life can be very dull or life can be exciting . It all depends on what you want .Maybe change is all that I want . When you want change in your life , all you need is a trigger . Everything you have built in past few years will change .

A new start , going into uncertainty . That is life . Unknown .. Uncertain ...Fun..