A beautiful short parable about happiness. The parables about living with morality are short. In another life

A parable is one of the oldest types of edifying story. Instructive allegories allow you to briefly and succinctly give any moral setting without resorting to direct conviction. That is why parables about a life with morality - short and allegorical - have at all times been a very popular educational tool, touching upon a variety of problems of human existence.

The ability to distinguish between good and evil distinguishes a person from an animal. It is not surprising that the folklore of all peoples keeps many parables on this topic. They tried to give their own definitions of good and evil, to study their interaction and explain the nature of human dualism in the Ancient East, and in Africa, and in Europe, and in both Americas. A large corpus of parables on this topic shows that with all the difference in cultures and traditions, different peoples have a common idea of ​​these fundamental concepts.

Two wolves

Once upon a time, an old Indian revealed to his grandson one life truth:
- In every person there is a struggle, very similar to the struggle of two wolves. One wolf represents evil - envy, jealousy, regret, selfishness, ambition, lies ... Another wolf represents good - peace, love, hope, truth, kindness, loyalty ...
The little Indian, moved to the depths of his soul by the words of his grandfather, thought for a few moments, and then asked:
- Which wolf wins in the end?
The old Indian smiled faintly and replied:
- The wolf you feed always wins.

Know and don't

The young man came to the sage with a request to accept him as a disciple.
- Can you lie? The sage asked.
- Of course not!
- And steal?
- No.
- And kill?
- No…
“So go and get to know all this,” the sage exclaimed, “but once you know, don't do it!

Black point

Once the sage gathered his disciples and showed them an ordinary piece of paper, where he drew a small black dot. He asked them:
- What do you see?
All in unison answered that the black point. The answer was not correct. The sage said:
- And can't you see this white sheet of paper - it is so huge, larger than this black dot! This is the same in life - we see in people first of all something bad, although there is much more good. And only a few people see the "white sheet of paper" at once.

Parables about happiness

Wherever a person is born, whoever he is, whatever he does, in fact, he does one thing - he is looking for happiness. This inner search continues from birth to death, even if not always conscious. And on this path, a lot of questions await a person. What is happiness? Is it possible, having nothing, to be happy? Is it possible to get happiness ready or do you need to create it yourself?
The concept of happiness is as individual as DNA or fingerprints. For some people and the whole world is not enough to feel at least satisfied. To others it is quite small - a sunbeam, a friendly smile. It seems that there can be no agreement between people about this ethical category. And yet, in various parables about happiness, points of contact are found.

A piece of clay

God blinded man out of clay. He blinded the earth, house, animals and birds for man. And he had an unused piece of clay.
- What else to blind you? God asked.
- Blind me happiness, - asked the man.
God did not answer, he thought and put the remaining piece of clay in the man's palm.

Money can not buy happiness

The disciple asked the Master:
- How true are the words that happiness is not in money?
The Master replied that they were completely correct.
- It's easy to prove. For money can buy a bed - but not a dream; food - but not appetite; medicines - but not health; servants - but not friends; women - but not love; dwelling - but not home; entertainment - but not joy; teachers - but not the mind. And what is named does not exhaust the list.

Khoja Nasreddin and the traveler

One day Nasruddin met a sullen man wandering along the road to the city.
- What's the matter? - Hodja Nasreddin asked the traveler.
The man showed him a tattered travel bag and said plaintively:
- Oh, I'm unhappy! Everything that I own in an infinitely vast world will barely fill this miserable, worthless bag!
“Your affairs are bad,” Nasreddin sympathized, snatched the bag from the traveler's hands and ran away.
And the traveler continued on his way, shedding tears. Meanwhile, Nasruddin ran ahead and put the bag right in the middle of the road. The traveler saw his sack lying on the way, laughed with joy and cried out:
- Oh, what happiness! And I really thought I had lost everything!
“It is easy to make a person happy by teaching him to appreciate what he has,” Hodja Nasreddin thought as he watched the traveler from the bushes.

Wise parables about morality

The words "moral" and "morality" in the Russian language have different connotations. Morality is, rather, a social attitude. Morality is internal, personal. However, the basic principles of morality and ethics overlap in many ways.
Wise parables easily, but not superficially, touch on precisely these basic principles: the attitude of man to man, dignity and baseness, attitude to the Motherland. Questions of the relationship between man and society are often embodied in a parable form.

A bucket of apples

The man bought himself a new house - a big, beautiful one - and a garden with fruit trees near the house. And next to him, in an old house, lived an envious neighbor who constantly tried to ruin his mood: he would throw garbage under the gate, then he would do some other nasty thing.
One day a man woke up in a good mood, went out onto the porch, and there was a bucket of slops. The man took a bucket, poured out the slops, cleaned the bucket to a shine, collected the largest, ripe and delicious apples in it and went to a neighbor. The neighbor opens the door in the hope of a scandal, and the man handed him a bucket of apples and said:
- Whoever is rich in what shares what!

Low and dignified

One padishah sent the sage three identical bronze figurines and ordered to convey:
- Let him decide which of the three people, whose statues we send, is worthy, who is so-so and who is low.
No one could find any difference between the three figurines. But the sage noticed holes in his ears. He took a thin flexible stick and stuck it into the ear of the first figurine. The wand came out through the mouth. In the second figurine, the wand came out through the other ear. The third figurine has a stick stuck somewhere inside.
- A person who divulges everything that he hears is certainly low, - reasoned the sage. - Anyone who has a secret enters one ear and exits through the other is a so-so person. Truly noble is the one who keeps within himself all the secrets.
So the sage decided and made the appropriate inscriptions on all the figurines.

Change your voice

Dovewing saw an owl in the grove and asked:
- Where are you from, owl?
- I lived in the east, and now I am flying west.
So the owl answered and began to hoot and laugh viciously. Dovewing asked again:
- And why did you leave your home and fly to foreign lands?
- Because in the east they don't like me because I have a nasty voice.
- In vain you left your native land, - said the dove. - You need to change not the land, but your voice. In the west, just as in the east, they do not tolerate an angry hoot.

About parents

Relation to parents is a moral task long ago solved by humanity. Biblical legends about Hama, Gospel commandments, numerous proverbs, fairy tales fully reflect people's ideas about the relationship between fathers and children. And yet, there are so many contradictions between parents and children that it is worth reminding a modern person from time to time about this.
The constant relevance of the topic "Parents and Children" gives rise to more and more new parables. Modern authors, following in the footsteps of their predecessors, find new words and metaphors to touch upon this issue again.

Trough

Once upon a time there was an old man. His eyes were blinded, his hearing was dulled, and his knees trembled. He almost could not hold a spoon in his hands, spilled soup, and sometimes food fell out of his mouth.
The son and his wife looked at him with disgust and began to put the old man in a corner behind the stove while eating, and the food was served to him in an old saucer. Once the old man's hands were shaking so much that he could not hold the saucer of food. It fell to the floor and shattered. Then the young daughter-in-law began to scold the old man, and the son made a wooden feeding trough for his father. Now the old man had to eat from it.
Once, while the parents were sitting at the table, their little son entered the room with a piece of wood in his hands.
- What do you want to do? - asked the father.
“A wooden feeder,” the baby replied. - When I grow up, dad and mom will eat from it.

Eagle and eagle

The old eagle flew over the abyss. He carried his son on his back. The eaglet was still too small and could not master this path. Flying over the abyss, the chick said:
- Father! Now you carry me across the chasm on your back, and when I become big and strong, I will carry you.
“No, sonny,” the old eagle replied sadly. “When you grow up, you will carry your son.

Suspension bridge

On the way between the two high-mountain villages there was a deep gorge. The inhabitants of these villages built a suspension bridge over it. People walked on its wooden planks, and two cables served as railings. People were so accustomed to walking on this bridge that they could not even hold on to this rail, and even children fearlessly ran across the gorge along the planks.
But one day the ropes-railings disappeared somewhere. Early in the morning, people approached the bridge, but no one was able to take a step across it. While the ropes were there, it was possible not to hold on to them, but without them the bridge turned out to be impregnable.
This is the case with our parents. While they are alive, it seems to us that we can do without them, but as soon as we lose them, life immediately begins to seem very difficult.

Life parables

Everyday parables are a special category of texts. In a person's life, every moment a situation of choice arises. What role can seemingly insignificant trifles, imperceptible little meannesses, stupid provocations, ridiculous doubts play in fate? Proverbs answer this question unequivocally: huge.
For a parable, there is nothing unimportant and unimportant. She firmly remembers that "the fluttering of a butterfly's wing echoes with thunder in the far-off worlds." But the parable does not leave a person alone with the inexorable law of retribution. She always leaves an opportunity for the fallen to rise and continue the path.

All in your hands

A sage lived in a Chinese village. People from everywhere came to him with their problems and illnesses, and no one left without receiving help. For this they loved and respected him.
Only one person said, “People! Who do you worship? After all, this is a charlatan and a swindler! " One day he gathered a crowd around him and said:
- Today I will prove to you that I was right. Let's go to your sage, I will catch a butterfly, and when he comes out on the porch of his house, I will ask: "Guess what I have in my hand?" He will say: "Butterfly" - after all, anyway one of you will let slip. And then I will ask: "Is she alive or dead?" If he says that he is alive, I will squeeze my hand, and if she is dead, then I will set the butterfly free. In any case, your sage will be a fool!
When they came to the house of the sage, and he came out to meet them, the envious asked his first question:
“Butterfly,” the sage replied.
- And alive or dead?
The old man, smiling into his beard, said:
- Everything is in your hands, man.

Bat

Long ago, a war broke out between the beast and the birds. The hardest part was the old Bat. After all, she was both an animal and a bird at the same time. Therefore, she could not decide for herself in any way whom it would be more profitable for her to join. But then she decided to cheat. If the birds gain the upper hand over the beasts, then she will support the birds. Otherwise, she will quickly jump over to the animals. And so she did.
But when everyone noticed how she was behaving, they immediately suggested that she not run from one to another, but once and for all choose one side. Then the old Bat said:
- No! I will stay in the middle.
- Good! Both sides said.
The battle began and the old Bat, caught in the middle of the battle, was crushed and died.
That is why whoever tries to sit between two chairs will always find himself on the most rotten part of the rope that hangs over the mouth of death.

The fall

One student asked his Sufi mentor:
- Teacher, what would you say if you found out about my fall?
- Get up!
- And next time?
- Get up again!
- And how long can it last - everything to fall and rise?
- Fall and rise as long as you live! After all, those who fell and did not rise are dead.

Orthodox parables about life

Another academician D.S. Likhachev noted that in Russia the parable as a genre "grew" from the Bible. The Bible itself is littered with parables. It was this form of teaching the people that Solomon and Christ chose. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that with the arrival of Christianity in Russia, the genre of the parable has become deeply rooted in our land.
Popular belief has always been far from formalism and "bookish" complexity. Therefore, the best Orthodox preachers constantly turned to allegory, where they generally transformed the key ideas of Christianity into a fairy-tale form. Sometimes Orthodox parables about life could be concentrated in one phrase-aphorism. In other cases - in a short story.

Humility is a feat

Once a woman came to the Optina hieroschemamonk Anatoly (Zertsalov) and asked him for his blessing for a spiritual feat: to live alone and fast without hindrance, pray and sleep on bare boards. The elder said to her:
- You know, the evil one does not eat, does not drink and does not sleep, but everything lives in the abyss, because he has no humility. Submit yourself in all the will of God - here is your feat; humble yourself before everyone, reproach yourself in everything, bring sickness and sorrow with thanksgiving - this is beyond any deeds!

Your cross

It seemed to one person that he was living very hard. And he once went to God, told about his misfortunes and asked Him:
- Can I choose another cross?
God looked at the man with a smile, took him to the storehouse, where there were crosses, and says:
- Choose.
For a long time, a man walked through the storehouse, looking for the smallest and lightest cross, and finally found a small, small, light, light cross, went up to God and said:
- Lord, can I take this one?
- You can, - answered God. - This is your own and is.

About love with morality

Love moves the worlds and human souls. It would be strange if parables ignored the problem of the relationship between a man and a woman. And here the authors of parables raise a great many questions. What is love? Can we define it? Where does it come from, and what is destroying it? How to get it?
Narrower aspects are also touched upon by parables. Household relations between husband and wife - it would seem, what could be more commonplace? But here, too, the parable finds food for thought. After all, it is only in fairy tales that the matter ends with a wedding crown. And the parable knows: everything is just beginning with this. And keeping love is just as important as finding it.

All or nothing

One man came to a sage and asked: "What is love?" The sage said, "Nothing."
The man was very surprised and began to tell him that he had read many books in which it is described that love can be different, sad and happy, eternal and fleeting.
Then the sage replied: "Everything."
The man again did not understand anything and asked: “How can I understand you? All or nothing?"
The sage smiled and said: “You yourself have just answered your question: nothing or everything. There can be no middle way! "

Mind and Heart

One person argued that the mind on the street of love is blind, and that the main thing in love is the heart. To prove this, he cited the story of a lover who swam across the Tigris River many times, bravely fighting the current to see his beloved.
But one day he suddenly noticed a speck on her face. After that, swimming across the Tiger, he thought: "My beloved is imperfect." And at that very moment, the love that kept him on the waves weakened, in the middle of the river his forces left him, and he drowned.

Repair, not throw away

An elderly couple who have lived together for over 50 years was asked:
- Probably, you have never quarreled in half a century?
- They swore, - answered the husband and wife.
- Maybe you never had a need, you had ideal relatives and a house - a full cup?
- No, everything is like everyone else.
- But you never wanted to break up?
- There were also such thoughts.
- How did you manage to live together for so long?
- Apparently, we were born and raised in those days when it was customary to fix broken things, and not throw them away.

Do not demand

The teacher learned that one of his students was persistently seeking someone's love.
“Don't ask for love, you won’t get it,” said the teacher.
- But why?
- Tell me, what do you do when uninvited guests are pounding at your door, when they knock, shout, demanding to open it, and tear their hair out of not being opened?
- I lock it tighter.
- Do not break into the doors of other people's hearts, so they will close before you even more. Become a welcome guest and any heart will open before you. Take the example of a flower that does not chase bees, but by giving them nectar attracts them to itself.

Short parables about insult

The outside world is a tough environment that constantly pits people against each other, striking sparks. A situation of conflict, humiliation, and the received insult can unsettle a person for a long time. The parable comes to the rescue here too, playing a psychotherapeutic role.
How to respond to an insult inflicted? Unleash anger and respond to the impudent person? What to choose - the Old Testament "eye for an eye" or the evangelical "turn the other cheek"? It is curious that of the entire corpus of parables about insults, Buddhist ones are the most popular today. The pre-Christian, but not the Old Testament approach seems to our contemporaries the most acceptable.

Go your own way

One of the disciples asked Buddha:
- If someone insults or hits me, what should I do?
- If a dry branch falls on you from a tree and hits you, what will you do? - he asked in response:
- What will i do? It's a simple coincidence, a simple coincidence, that I was under a tree when a branch fell from it, - said the student.
Then the Buddha remarked:
- So do the same. Someone was mad, angry and hit you. It's like a branch from a tree fell on your head. Don't let it bother you, go your own way as if nothing happened.

Take it for yourself

Once, several people began to viciously insult the Buddha. He listened in silence, very calmly. And so they felt uneasy. One of these people addressed the Buddha:
- Do not our words hurt you ?!
“It's up to you to decide whether to offend me or not,” the Buddha replied. - And my - to accept your insults or not. I refuse to accept them. You can take them for yourself.

Socrates and the impudent

When some insolent man kicked Socrates, he endured it without uttering a word. And when someone expressed surprise at why Socrates ignored such an impudent insult, the philosopher remarked:
- If a donkey kicked me, would I really begin to bring him to court?

About the meaning of life

Reflections on the meaning and purpose of being belong to the category of so-called "damned questions", and no one has an unambiguous answer. However, a deep existential fear - "Why do I live if I die anyway?" - torments every person. And of course, the parable genre also touches on this issue.
Every nation has parables about the meaning of life. Most often it is defined as follows: the meaning of life is in life itself, in its endless reproduction and development through subsequent generations. The short duration of the existence of each individual person is considered philosophically. Perhaps the most allegorical and transparent parable in this category was invented by the American Indians.

Stone and bamboo

It is said that once stone and bamboo had a strong argument. Each of them wanted a person's life to be similar to his own.
The stone said:
- A person's life should be the same as mine. Then he will live forever.
Bamboo replied:
- No, no, a person's life should be like mine. I die, but I am immediately born again.
Stone objected:
- No, it's better to be different. Better to let the person be like me. I do not bow to the wind or rain. Neither water, nor heat, nor cold can harm me. My life is endless. There is no pain or concern for me. This is how human life should be.
Bamboo insisted:
- No. A person's life should be like mine. I am dying, it is true, but I am being reborn in my sons. Isn't that so? Take a look around me - my sons are everywhere. And they, too, will have their own sons, and they will all have smooth and white skin.
To this the stone could not answer. Bamboo won the argument. This is why human life is like the life of a bamboo.

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The parable of happiness: the fisherman and the banker

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Once, a banker stood on a pier in a small Mexican village and watched a fisherman sitting in a fragile boat, he caught a huge tuna. The banker congratulated the Meshican on his luck and asked how long it took to catch such a fish. “A couple of hours, no more,” the Mexican replied. “Why didn't you stay at sea longer and catch a few more of these fish,” the banker was surprised. - One fish is enough for my family to live tomorrow, - ...

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The Parable of Misfortune: A Boat with One Oar

24.11.2018 . Proverbs

Sufi parable of sorrow and misfortune, from Osho: Once upon a time there was a Sufi fakir named Hassan. One fine day a disciple said to him when they were getting into the boat: - I understand that there is joy, since God is our Father and, naturally, He must give joy to His children. But why is there sadness, unhappiness? Hassan said nothing, only began to row with one oar. The boat spun. - What are you doing? - exclaimed the student. - If you row with one oar, ...

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Parable about happiness and wealth

10.09.2018 . Proverbs

Hing Shi was not a wealthy man, despite the fact that he had a thriving school with many young men who came to him from all over China. Once, one of the students asked him: - Teacher, your glory is thundering all over the country, you could be a rich man who does not know what care about tomorrow is. Why don't you strive for wealth? “I have everything I need for life,” Hing Shi replied. - ...

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Parable about happiness in the pit

Zen parable from OSHO about attitude to life. I have heard a story about an old Zen monk. He was dying. Before his death, he said that in the evening he would be gone. Followers, students, friends hurried to him. Many people loved him. People from all over the world began to flock to him. Hearing that the master was dying, one of his old disciples hurried to the bazaar. Someone asked him: "The owner is dying in the hut, why are you rushing to the market?" For what …

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The Parable of Happiness: I Choose Bliss

11.08.2018 . Proverbs

A little Sufi parable about happiness: Master Bahauddin was happy all his life, his smile never left his face. His whole life was saturated with the aroma of the holiday! Even dying, he laughed merrily. It seemed as if he was enjoying the coming of death. His disciples were sitting around, and one asked: - Why are you laughing? All your life you have laughed, and we all hesitated to ask, how do you manage it? And now, in the last minutes, you are laughing! What's funny here? Old …

God blinded a man out of clay, and he had an unused piece.

- What else to blind you? God asked.

- Blind me happiness, - asked the man.

God did not answer, and only put the remaining piece of clay into the man's palm.

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How to find your soul mate

A wise parable on how to find your soul mate

The philosopher threw an apple in his palm, turned it around, looking from different sides, and said thoughtfully:

“People think their souls are like apples.

- In terms of? - his student became interested.

- More precisely, halves, - corrected the philosopher.

- That's about it. He carefully cut the apple in two and laid it on the table.

- They have such a belief that there is an ideal match for every person. It seems that God, before sending souls into the world, cuts them in half, into male and female halves. Like an apple. So these halves wander, looking for each other. And find? How do you imagine it? What is the likelihood of such a meeting? Do you know how many people there are in the world?

- Many.

- That's it. And besides, well, they will find each other, so what next? Do you think they will make a whole apple and live in peace and harmony?

- Well, yes. Isn't that so? - the Pupil was surprised.

- No not like this. The teacher picked up halves of an apple in his hands and raised them to his face.

- Here are two fresh souls descend into the world. What does the world do to human souls? The philosopher with a crunch bit off a piece from one half.

“The world,” he continued with a full mouth, “is not static. And cruel. He grinds everything for himself. One way or another. Cuts off piece by piece, or bites off, or even grinds into baby puree. He took a bite of the other half and was silent for a while, chewing.

The apprentice stared at the two stubs and swallowed nervously.

“And so,” the Philosopher solemnly proclaimed, “they are meeting! He connected the bitten halves.

- And what, they suit each other? HET !!!

“Look here now,” the Teacher interrupted and took a few more apples.

- We cut each in half, put two halves from different apples at random - and what do we see?

“They don't fit,” the Apprentice nodded.

- Well, what do we see? Do they pair now?

- Yes, - the apprentice nodded thoughtfully.

- Now they match perfectly.

- Because the world bit them not one by one, but together!

People who love each other become one whole: together they enjoy life and together take the blows of fate, learn to understand each other perfectly, support each other and push to achieve success.
And over time, some couples adopt even habits from each other, become similar characters and harmoniously complement each other.

That is, second halves are not born, but become. And this is painstaking work.

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The parable of the best husband

An instructive parable about how a woman asked a wise old man for a divorce from her husband.

Once a woman came to the wise old man and said:

- You got married between me and your husband two years ago. Now divorce us. I don't want to live with him anymore.
- What is the reason for your desire to get a divorce? - asked the sage.

The woman explained this:

- All husbands return home on time, but my husband is constantly delayed. Because of this, there are scandals every day at home.

The elder, surprised, asks:

- Is this the only reason?
“Yes, I don’t want to live with a person with such a flaw,” the woman replied.
- I will divorce you, but on one condition. Come back home now, bake a big delicious bread and bring it to me. But when you bake bread, do not take anything in the house! Ask your neighbors for salt, water, eggs and flour. And be sure to explain to them the reason for your request, - said the sage.

The woman went home and got down to business.
I went to a neighbor and said:

- Neighbor, lend me a glass of water.
- Have you run out of water? Isn't there a well dug in the yard?
“There is water, but I went to the wise old man to complain about my husband and asked to divorce us,” the woman explained.

And as soon as she finished, the neighbor sighed:

- Eh, if you only knew what my husband is!

And she began to complain about her husband.
After, the woman went to another neighbor to ask for salt.

- You are out of salt, are you asking for just one spoon?
`` There is salt, but I complained to the elder about my husband, asked for a divorce, '' the woman says, and before she could finish, the neighbor exclaimed:
- Eh, if you only knew what my husband is! - and began to complain about her husband.

So, to whom this woman did not go to ask for food, she heard complaints from everyone about their husbands.
Finally, she baked a large delicious bread, brought it to the sage and gave it with the words:

- Thank you, taste my work with your family. Just don't think of divorcing my husband.
- Why, what happened, daughter? The sage asked.
- My husband turns out to be the best! - she answered him.

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The king announced that the husband of the princess will be the one who will love her all her life.

On the appointed day, hundreds of suitors gathered in the palace. Everyone wanted to prove that they would love the princess forever.

The girl looked at the dressed-up boys and thought. Then she called her teacher and talked with him for a long time.

“I won't talk to the suitors today,” the princess announced. - Divide them into groups. Have the first group come tomorrow night. In the afternoon I will study with the teacher.
- Daughter, you have already graduated from school, - the queen was surprised.
“It's never too late to learn,” replied the princess.

The teacher's house was near the road. When the first groom, a noble knight on horseback, passed by, he saw a beautiful beggar woman with a basket of flowers by the road. Seeing the knight, she asked:

- Buy a bouquet, young man.
- Get out of the way, beggar, - shouted the knight and galloped away.

So did all the young men who hurried to the palace that day.
In the evening, the sad princess received the suitors. After saying a few words, she immediately sent them away. The same thing happened on the second day and on the third.

- Daughter, why are you driving everyone away? The queen asked anxiously.
“They can't see beauty, Mom.

A month has passed. All the grooms of the last group gathered in the palace, there was only one groom and the princess herself. They appeared together, and the princess announced that she had found her fiancé.

Then she told the queen:

My teacher advised me to how to choose a husband. He said: "The love of the one who will love you in rags will live until the end of his life."

Every day I changed into old clothes and waited for suitors near the road. Only this young man stopped and bought a bouquet from me. He told me that I was beautiful.

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Independent woman

Once upon a time Absolutely Independent Woman... About a year ago, she became such - absolutely independent, which she was terribly proud of.

She woke up when the alarm went off and never lay in bed. She didn't care whether she drank coffee or tea: it took her a long time to overcome her addiction to caffeine. And she overcame, at the same time expelling everything sweet, high-calorie and not healthy from her diet. So she drank water in the morning and ate unsweetened and unsalted oatmeal.

She broke up with her friends because she didn't want to depend on them.

She was completely indifferent to shopping - and no one would dare to reproach her for losing her head because of a shiny rag. What's shopping! She did not lose her head from men either. Many months have passed since she chased away her beloved (and in fact almost got into dependence on him).

In short, absolutely Independent Woman felt that a little more - and she would become Ideal Woman.

There was a rustle outside her door on Saturday morning. She opened it. Staggering with fatigue, Ko stood on the doorstep

In one small country, in a small, provincial town, where everyone knows each other and there are no secrets, where the joys are common, and the misfortunes shared by everyone no longer seem to be misfortunes, one boy was born in ancient times immemorial, who proved that there is no place paints a person, and that, on the contrary, there are such people who can not only decorate any place and time, they can remain in the memory of people forever. This ordinary boy turned out to be like that too.

What was extraordinary about him was that very early he learned not only to hear and see. He knew how to absorb everything he heard and saw, knew how to understand everything and fearlessly seek answers to the questions that were missing and incomprehensible to him. The curious boy hides a tireless seeker of Truth. He wanted to know more, more, more ... Everything! Having learned one thing, he immediately rushed in search of something new, even more interesting and incomprehensible.

When the boy was one year old, residents of the town gathered at his parents' house to congratulate the boy on his first birthday. Each gave him a hand-drawn drawing with one, only wish. Everyone wished the boy Happiness, and accompanied their wish with their own image of Happiness. And all these images were different from each other, and there were exactly as many of them as there were inhabitants in the city.

The boy grew up and never parted with his collection of ideas about Happiness. He could not understand in any way what is this "Happiness"? ..

Why everyone wanted him for him, but portrayed him in different ways.

When he grew up, he left his hometown and devoted all his free time to conversations with people, and asked them all, the same question:

What is happiness?

People laughed, or became sad, describing happiness or lack of it, and just like in the drawings, each person had their own Happiness. But it never coincided even for two people, regardless of whether they were strangers, or the closest. Everyone described happiness in their own way. For men, it was work, profession, friends, money, cars, yachts, travel. For boys and girls - love, fun, entertainment. For women - family hearth, children, husband, wealth, clothes, jewelry, beauty. But the big picture did not work out. He tried to assemble it from separate parts, like a mosaic, but no - it was not a whole picture. She resembled a blanket made of rags deprived of life.

The boy became a young man, then a man, and devoted his whole life to the search for Happiness. Sometimes it seemed to him that he had achieved it, but it was worth making one awkward movement or admitting one wrong thought, and his picture of Happiness again shattered into thousands of fragments, plunging him into sadness. It seemed that he would never get an answer to the question of his whole life.

He experienced everything that could only be experienced. He loved and was loved, he had children and gave them a decent upbringing, he worked and traveled, but always conscientiously and tirelessly sought an answer to his question ... In vain!

And one day he prayed to God:

God! I am satisfied with everything that I have, I am not asking you for anything, but tell me, what is "Happiness"? All the inhabitants of my hometown wished me it when I was one year old. So have I ever owned it? Did I have it?

He did not notice how, from prayer, he went into a deep sleep and plunged into nothingness ... And there, in the very depths of nothingness, he heard:

Become a Master and sculpt Happiness yourself, then you will know what it is.

He became a Master, he sculpted Happiness and went to check it with people to hear what they would say to him. But again there was no agreement. How many people there were, so many opinions. And the Master continued to improve his beautiful, unearthly beauty vase, but still there were people who suggested some new additions, new details, and the completion did not come.

The Master grew old, it was time for him to end his earthly life, but there was still no answer. But at the last moment, his gaze once again lingered on the perfection he had created, and the ray of the sun, reflected on the ideal surface, suddenly revealed to him the secret of happiness as an inspiration.

There is no recipe or picture of happiness for everyone. Each Person is a Great Master, capable of creating his own crystal, golden, or any other, wonderful happiness, giving it the outlines hidden in his own Soul and corresponding to it. Your Happiness is a mirror image of your Soul.

When one of the founders of The Beatles, John Lennon, was young, his mother told him that happiness is the main thing in life. In elementary school, children were given the task of telling what they want to be when they grow up. John wrote Happy. The teachers said: "You don't understand the task!" The future great musician replied: "You don't understand life!"

And he was right. Any person's dream is to be happy. But what kind of sensation is this, and how can one feel and maintain it?

Let's try to find answers to questions using parables about happiness. After all, these short and wise stories answer the most important questions in life. And parables can also explain what happiness is.

Parables about happiness

The best selection of life stories.

Make me happy

God blinded a man out of clay, and he had an unused piece.
- What else to blind you? God asked.
- Blind me happiness, - asked the man.
God did not answer, and only put the remaining piece of clay into the man's palm.

Happiness in the pit

Happiness roamed the world, and everyone who met him on the way made wishes come true. Once Happiness, through negligence, fell into a hole and could not get out of there. People came up to the pit and made their wishes, and Happiness fulfilled them. No one was in a hurry to help Happiness get out.
And then a young guy came up to the pit. He looked at Happiness, but did not demand anything, but asked: "What do you want, Happiness, what do you want?"
"Get out of here," said Happiness.
The guy helped him out and went his own way. And Happiness ... Happiness ran after him.

Can happiness be bought?

One day a woman had a dream that the Lord God was standing behind the counter of the store.
- God! It's you? she exclaimed with joy.
- Yes, it is I, - answered God.
- What can I buy from You? the woman asked.
“You can buy everything from me,” was the answer.
- In that case, please give me happiness.
God smiled benevolently and went into the back room for the ordered goods. After a while, he returned with a small paper box.
- And it's all?! the surprised and disappointed woman exclaimed.
“Yes, that's all,” God replied. “Didn't you know that my store only sells seeds?”

The parable of science to be happy

Once a sage walked along the road, admired the beauty of the world and enjoyed life. Suddenly he noticed an unhappy man hunched over under an overwhelming burden.
- Why do you doom yourself to such suffering? the sage asked.
“I suffer for the happiness of my children and grandchildren,” the man replied. - My great-grandfather suffered all his life for the happiness of his grandfather, my grandfather suffered for the happiness of my father, my father suffered for my happiness, and I will suffer all my life, only so that my children and grandchildren become happy.
- Was at least someone happy in your family? the sage asked.
- No, but my children and grandchildren will definitely be happy! - answered the unfortunate man.
- An illiterate cannot teach to read, and a mole cannot raise an eagle! - said the sage. - First, learn to be happy yourself, then you will understand how to make your children and grandchildren happy!

Three ideas about happiness

Once upon a time, there were three friends in this world, and each dreamed of his own happiness. But they saw happiness in different ways. The first thought that happiness is wealth, the second thought that talent was happiness, and the third believed that happiness was a family.
Long or short, but they all achieved their happiness. However, everything has an end. Before the hour of death, friends gathered to take stock. The first one said:
- I was rich, but I did not experience happiness. I'm dying a miser and a misanthropist.
The second said:
- I was talented, but I did not experience happiness. I am leaving this life tormented by loneliness.
The third said:
- And I learned what happiness is. I am leaving, being treated kindly by my loved ones, and leaving the earth the most valuable thing - new people.

The parable of the hidden happiness

Once the gods gathered and decided to have some fun. One of them said:
- Let's take something from people?
After much thought, another exclaimed:
- I know! Let's take away their happiness! The only problem is where to hide it so that they don't find it.
The first one said:
- Let's hide him at the top of the highest mountain in the world!
“No, remember that they have a lot of strength, someone can climb up and find, and if they find one, everyone else will immediately know where happiness is,” answered the other.
Then someone came up with a new proposal:
- Let's hide it at the bottom of the sea!
They answered him:
- No, do not forget that they are curious, someone can design a diving apparatus, and then they will definitely find happiness.
“Let's hide it on another planet, away from Earth,” someone else suggested.
- No, - they rejected his offer, - remember that we gave them enough intelligence, someday they will come up with a ship to travel the worlds, and they will discover this planet, and then everyone will find happiness. The oldest god, who remained silent throughout the conversation and only listened attentively to the speakers, said:
- I think I know where to hide happiness so that they never find it.
Everyone turned to him intrigued and asked:
- Where?
“Let’s hide it inside themselves, they will be so busy looking for it outside that it would never even occur to them to look for it inside themselves.
All the gods agreed, and since then people spend their entire lives in search of happiness, not knowing that it is hidden in themselves.

Parable about happy people

Once a group of former classmates, and now highly qualified professionals, successful, respected and rich people, gathered to visit their old beloved professor. They came to his house, and very soon the conversation turned to the incessant stress provoked by work, the modern world, and life in general.
The professor offered coffee to all his students and, having received consent, retired to the kitchen. He returned with a large coffee pot with surprisingly different coffee cups on a tray beside it. The cups were multi-colored, of different sizes. Among this company were expensive porcelain, and ordinary ceramic, and just clay, and glass, and plastic. They differed in shape, decor, ease of handles ... The professor arranged a coffee pot in the middle of the table and suggested that everyone choose their favorite cup and fill it with freshly brewed coffee. When the cups were disassembled and the coffee was poured, the professor cleared his throat a little and quietly, with incredible warm benevolence, addressed his guests:
- Did you notice that the most beautiful and expensive cups were sold first? Have the simplest and cheapest remained? This is normal, as everyone wants the best for themselves. In fact, this is in most cases the cause of the stress you mentioned. To continue, the cup did not add flavor or quality to the coffee. The cup only disguises or hides what we drink. You wanted coffee, not a cup, but instinctively you looked for the better one.
Life is coffee. Work, money, social status are just cups that shape and harbor life in something. And the type of cup does not determine or change the quality of the life we ​​lead. On the contrary, if we only concentrate on the cup, we stop enjoying coffee. Enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people are not those who have the best, but those who do the best with what they have. Remember.

Parable about happiness and unhappiness

One Chinese peasant lived his whole life in labor, did not make any good, but gained wisdom. He worked the land with his son from morning to night. One day the son said to his father:
- Father, we are in misfortune, our horse is gone.
- Why do you call it misfortune? - asked the father. - Let's see what time will tell.
A few days later the horse returned and brought the horse behind it.
- Father, what happiness! Our horse came back and brought a horse with it.
- Why do you call it happiness? - asked the father, - Let's see what time will tell.
After some time, the young man wanted to saddle the horse. The horse, not accustomed to carrying a rider, reared up and threw off the rider. The young man broke his leg.
- Father, what a misfortune! I broke my leg.
- Why do you call it misfortune? The father asked calmly. - Let's see what time will tell.
The young man did not share his father's philosophy, and therefore politely remained silent and galloped on one leg to the bed.
A few days later, the emperor's messengers arrived in the village with an order to take all capable young people to the war. They also came to the house of the old peasant, saw that his son could not move, and left the house.
Only then did the young man understand that one can never be absolutely sure of what is happiness and what is unhappiness.
It is always necessary to wait and see what time has to say about what is good and what is bad.
This is how life works: what seemed bad turns into good and vice versa. It is best not to rush to conclusions, but to give time the opportunity to call things by their proper names. Better to wait until tomorrow. Anyway, everything that happens to us carries a positive beginning for our life experience.

Happiness is the way

We expect life to get better when we turn 18, when we get married, when we get a better job, when we have a child, a second ...
Then we feel tired, as our children grow up slowly, and we think that when they grow up, we will feel happy. As they become more independent and enter the transitional age, we complain that it is difficult to get along with them, and when they pass this period, it will become easier.
Then we say that our life will get better when we finally buy a bigger house and a better car, we can go on vacation, we retire ...
The truth is, there is no better moment to feel happy. If not now, then when?
It seems that life is about to begin, real life! But there is always one problem on the way, one unfinished business, one unpaid debt, which need a primary solution; and after that, life will begin. And if we look closely, we see that these problems are endless. Of them, in fact, life consists.
This helps us see that there is no path to happiness, happiness is the path. We should appreciate every moment, especially when we share it with someone dear, and remember that time does not wait for anyone.
Don't wait until high school or college starts, when you lose 5 pounds, when you have children, when children go to school, get married, get divorced, New Years, spring, fall or winter, next Friday, Saturday or Sunday, or the moment you die in order to be happy.
Happiness is a path, not a destiny.
Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like no one sees you.

The parable of the search for happiness

It was a long time ago, when the Lord created the earth, trees, animals and people. Man became the ruler over all of them, but when he was expelled from paradise and became unhappy, he asked the animals to bring him happiness.
“Good,” said the animals, accustomed to obeying humans. And they went around the world in search of human happiness. They searched for a long time, but they did not find his happiness, because they did not even know what it looked like. And so they decided to bring something that made them happy. The fish brought fins, tail, gills and scales. Tiger - strong legs, claws, fangs and nose. Eagle - wings, feathers, strong beak and sharp eye. But none of this made a person happy. And then the animals told him to go to seek his own happiness.
Since then, every person walks the earth and seeks his own happiness, but few people realize to look for it in themselves.

The big dog, seeing the puppy chasing its tail, asked:
- Why are you chasing your tail like that?
- I studied philosophy, - answered the puppy, - I solved the problems of the universe, which have not been solved by any dog ​​before me; I learned that the best thing for a dog is happiness and that my happiness is in the tail, so I chase after him, and when I catch him, he will be mine.
- Sonny, - said the dog, - I was also interested in world problems and made up my own opinion about it. I also realized that happiness is wonderful for a dog and that my happiness is in the tail, but I noticed that wherever I go, no matter what I do, he follows me.

 

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