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Indian parable

Once the padishah wanted to see with his own eyes an apsara (the image of an apsara is an Indian idea of ideal femininity) and a witch. Birbal came to Darbar, and the padishah told him about it. - This is not difficult. Wait a bit, he said...

The arithmetic of happiness Parable from Alexander Vyzhenko

Somehow the Starchik came to Poltava, sat down in Zeleny Gay, not far from the Assumption Cathedral, and began to shout out: - I sell wisdom; one Wisdom - a penny, for a nickel - two whole! Here a rich man came up to him, and he said: - I, - he says, - will give you gold, if you ...

Hey Minotaur! Parable from Felix Krivin

The minotaur walked through the labyrinth. There was no exit. - Everything I have is not like people! - sighed the Minotaur, exaggerating his misfortunes as usual: his arms, legs, and torso were just like those of people, only his head was like that of a bull, and even that he got from ...

Without hope and fear Ancient parable

Somehow the Demonact was asked a question: - How, in your opinion, it is possible to define happiness? - Happy only free. When it was objected that there were many free people, he said: - But I consider free one who does not hope for anything and is not afraid of anything. - But such...

ladybug Parable for children

In the middle of God's beautiful, bright world lived a small gray insect. All other insects were very proud of their bright colors and did not pay any attention to her, and the Colorado potato beetle even mocked her. The little bug was very sad. ...

Be happy! Parable of unknown origin

A beggar stood by the road begging for alms. A rider passing by hit the beggar in the face with a whip. He, looking after the retreating rider, said: - Be happy. The peasant, who saw what happened, upon hearing these words, asked: - Are you really so humble? - ...

Be happy

A rich lady, passing by a poor house, heard a cheerful laugh and ordered the servant: - Go and find out what their holiday is. “This is a woodcutter’s family,” the servant reported. - Today he sold firewood and fed everyone hearty with porridge. Here they are happy. "And my husband is busy...

View from above Parable from Alexander Bella

The man asked God to show the way to happiness. God lifted him up so high that the man saw many roads leading to what he was asking about. And so many that I was confused. The man examined them from a height until he sank to the ground. Then he...

Will of God Esoteric parable

One day a very devout man asked God every day for temporary things. And when God did not fulfill his desire, he was offended, but he prayed again. And suddenly he heard a voice inside him. “My pious son, all forms of life have come from a single point. All...

Memories of happiness music Parable from Alexandra Lopatina

There lived an old husband and wife. In their youth, they passionately loved each other. The husband brought gifts to his beloved every day, sometimes a field flower, and sometimes a ring, bracelet or necklace. Then he took out a harmonica from his pocket and played merrily, and the young ...

Time for happiness modern parable

One lady was having dinner with her friend. At the next table, a very drunk and therefore agitated man obsessively tried to strike up a conversation with them. Having finally lost patience, the lady asked him to calm down. - Why? he wondered. - I'm talking about...

It probably won't help you Parable from Alexander Bella about the teacher Amu

The disputants turned to Amu with the question: “What does a person strive for?” The sage agreed to listen to them. Then the first exclaimed: - I do not understand what the argument is about! Clearly, fortunately! “Usually to avoid the worst,” objected the second. - To knowledge, - confidently ...

The choice is yours Parable from Sergey Shepel

Why are you angry and offended? Isn't it better to calm down and forgive? - asked the Teacher. - And why should I do him a favor and forgive him, he is ... - the student wanted to justify himself. “Forgive me for interrupting you,” Master said. - Let me ask...

Choice of the Cross Christian parable

There was one simple-hearted villager who lived by the labor of his own hands, but earned very little: he barely had enough to feed himself and his family. Once he went to the seashore, sat down on a stone and began to watch how large ships approached the pier with ...

Call Parable as narrated by Osho

A little struggle is all it takes. You will only become richer through storm, lightning, thunder - as well as through joy and happiness. It's an old parable, must be very old, because God still lived on earth in those days. One day a man came, an old farmer,...

Where is my remote? Parable from Andrey Yakushev

old wise lion lying in the grass and basking in the sun. A small lion cub suddenly rushed past. He jumped, now and then circling around himself.

What are you doing? Lev asked lazily.

I want to catch my tail! - answered the Lion.

But why would you uhthen? Lev chuckled.

I was told that in the tail - my happiness. If I catch myself by the tail, then I will catch my happiness. Therefore, I have been running for the second day after my tail. However, he eludes me all the time.

Yes, - grumbled the wise old King of beasts, - once I, like you, ran after my happiness, but it eluded me all the time. Then I decided to leave this venture. Over time, I realized that it is pointless to chase after happiness, as it always follows me. Wherever you are, your happiness is always with you... You just need to remember this!

Parable "Who creates happiness"

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

- What else to blind you? God asked.

“Blind me happiness,” the man asked.

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

Parable "The true length of life"

One man was looking for the perfect place. He searched for a long time. And in a distant country he found a place where he felt good. He wandered around the city he liked so much and looked around. But when he wandered into the cemetery, he was horrified. On all tombstones, the dates of death indicated that these people lived for two or three years, accurate to the hours lived. In fear, the man ran out of the city, but on the square he ran into an old man. In horror, the man shouted: - You monsters! Are you killing your children? The old man showed him a book that hung around his neck on a chain, and said: - When our child reaches maturity, we give him such a book. And every moment, every minute or hour of true happiness in our lives, each of us enters into this book. After death, we add up all these moments. And these are the real days of our lives.

Parable about freedom of choice

"Once upon a time there was one Teacher. This strange man remained happy all his life, the smile did not leave his face for a second! His whole life was as if filled with the aroma of a holiday ... And even on his deathbed he continued to laugh merrily. that he is enjoying the coming of death!” His disciples sat around - puzzled, bewildered - and perplexed.

And finally, one of them could not stand it and asked:

- Teacher, why are you laughing? You have been laughing all your life. But we did not dare to ask you how you manage to do it. And now we are completely confused. Dying, you continue to laugh! But what's so funny about that?!

And the old man answered: - Many years ago I came to my Teacher. I was then young and stupid, as you are now. I was only seventeen years old, and I was already a sufferer - exhausted and embittered at life. My Master was then seventy, and he laughed just like that, without any reason. I asked him, "How do you do it?" And he answered: "I am free in my choice. And this is my choice. Every morning, when I open my eyes, I ask myself: what will you choose today - bliss or suffering?" And so it turns out that since then every morning I choose bliss. But it's so natural!"

Angel de Coitet, The Golden Ratio.

Parable "Happy Chicken"

Once a thief broke into someone else's chicken coop and stole a chicken. When he was running away, he knocked over the lamp, and the chicken coop caught fire. The chicken looked back and, seeing the fire of the fire, understood: it saved her life. When the thief fattened the chicken with millet and bread, the chicken understood that he was taking care of her. When the thief wandered from city to city, hiding the chicken in his bosom, the chicken understood: he loves her. When the chicken saw that the thief had brandished a knife, she realized that he wanted to commit suicide. She jumped on the knife and covered the thief with her body. And she died happy.

About coffee and life priorities

A group of successful alumni who have made remarkable careers came to visit their old professor. Of course, soon the conversation turned to work - graduates complained about numerous difficulties and life problems. Offering coffee to his guests, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a coffee pot and a tray filled with a variety of cups - porcelain, glass, plastic, crystal - simple, expensive, and exquisite. When the graduates took apart the cups, the professor said: If you notice, all the expensive cups have been taken apart. No one chose simple and cheap cups. The desire to have only the best for yourself is the source of your problems. Realize that the cup alone does not make the coffee better. Sometimes it's just more expensive, and sometimes it even hides what we drink. What you really wanted was coffee, not a cup. But you deliberately chose the best cups.. And then looked at who got which cup. Now think: life is coffee, and work, money, position, society are cups. They are just tools for storing Life. What cup we have does not determine or change the quality of our Life. Sometimes, concentrating only on the cup, we forget to enjoy the taste of the coffee itself. Enjoy your coffee!" The happiest people don't have the best. But they make the best of what they have. Happiness is in wanting what you have. Not in having what you want.

When one of founders of The Beatles John Lennon was small, his mother told him that happiness is the main thing in life. V primary school The 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 assignment!" The future great musician answered: "You don't understand life!"

And he was right. The dream of any person is to be happy. But what kind of feeling is this, and how to feel and keep it?

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

Parables about happiness

The best selection of life stories.

Blind me happiness

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

happiness in the hole

Happiness wandered around the world, and everyone who met him on the way, fulfilled wishes. One day, Happiness, through negligence, fell into a hole and could not get out. People came up to the pit and made their wishes, and Happiness fulfilled them. Nobody was in a hurry to help Happiness get upstairs.
And then a young guy came up to the pit. He looked at Happiness, but did not demand anything, but asked: "You, Happiness, what do you want?"
"Get out of here," - said Happiness.
The guy helped him out and went on his way. And Happiness ... Happiness ran after him.

Can you buy happiness?

Once 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, I am,” God replied.
- What can I buy from you? the woman asked.
“You can buy everything from me,” came the answer.
- In that case, give me happiness, please.
God smiled benevolently and went to the utility room for the ordered goods. After a while he returned with a small paper box.
- And it's all?! exclaimed the surprised and disappointed woman.
“Yes, that’s all,” God replied. "Didn't you know that my store only sells seeds?"

Parable about the science of being happy

Once a wise man was walking along the road, admiring the beauty of the world and enjoying life. Suddenly he noticed an unfortunate man hunched under unbearable burden.
Why are you subjecting yourself to such suffering? - asked the sage.
“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.
- And was at least someone happy in your family? - asked the sage.
- No, but my children and grandchildren will definitely be happy! - answered the unfortunate man.
- An illiterate person will not 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 concepts of happiness

Once upon a time there were three friends in the world, and each dreamed of his own happiness. But happiness seemed to them in different ways. The first thought that happiness is wealth, the second thought talent was happiness, and the third believed that happiness was a family.
Long, 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. Dying a miser and a misanthrope.
The second one said:
- I was talented, but I did not experience happiness. I am leaving this life tormented by loneliness.
The third one said:
- And I knew what happiness is. I leave caressed by my loved ones and leave the most valuable thing to the earth - new people.

Parable of Hidden Happiness

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

Parable about happy people

One day, a group of former classmates, now high-class professionals, successful, respected and rich people, gathered to visit their old favorite professor. They came to his house, and very soon the conversation turned to the incessant stress that both work and 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, next to which there were surprisingly different coffee cups on a tray. The cups were multi-colored, different-sized. Among this company were expensive porcelain, and ordinary ceramic, and just clay, and glass, and plastic. They differed in shape, decor, and the convenience of handles... The professor arranged a coffee pot in the middle of the table and suggested that everyone choose a cup they liked and fill it with freshly brewed coffee. When the cups were taken apart and the coffee was poured, the professor cleared his throat a little and quietly, with incredible warm benevolence, turned to his guests:
– Have you noticed that the most beautiful and expensive cups sold out first? What about the simplest and cheapest? This is normal, because everyone wants the best for themselves. In fact, this is in most cases the cause of the stresses you mentioned. To continue: the cup did not add flavor or quality to the coffee. The cup only masks or hides what we are drinking. You wanted coffee, not a cup, but instinctively you looked for the best one.
Life is coffee. work, money, social status are just cups that give 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 concentrate only on the cup, we stop enjoying coffee. Enjoy your coffee!
Most happy people 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 good, but gained wisdom. He cultivated the land with his son from morning to night. Once a son said to his father:
- Father, we have misfortune, our horse is gone.
Why do you call it misfortune? the father asked. - Let's see what time will tell.
A few days later the horse returned and brought the horse with him.
- Father, what happiness! Our horse returned and brought a horse with it.
Why do you call it happiness? - asked the father, - Let's see what time will show.
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 disaster! 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 the philosophy of his father, and therefore politely kept silent and galloped on one leg to the bed.
A few days later, messengers of the emperor arrived in the village with an order to take all capable young people to the war. They also came to the old peasant's house, saw that his son could not move, and left the house.
Only then did the young man realize that one can never be absolutely sure what is happiness and what is unhappiness.
It is always necessary to wait and see what time will tell about what is good and what is bad.
Life is so arranged: 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 a spade a spade. Better wait at least until tomorrow. In any case, 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 the best place work when we have a baby, a second...
Then we feel tired because our children grow slowly, and we think that when they grow up, we will feel happy. When they become more independent and enter their puberty, we complain that they are difficult to get along with, and when they pass this period, it will become easier.
Then we say that our life will be better when we finally buy a bigger house and a better car, we can go on vacation, we retire...
The truth is that 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 outstanding debt that needs to be addressed first; and then life begins. And if we look closely, we will see that these problems are endless. Of them, in fact, life consists.
This helps us to see that there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. We must appreciate every moment, especially when we share it with someone dear, and remember that time waits for no one.
Don't wait until school is over or college starts, when you lose five pounds, when you have kids, when your kids go to school, get married, divorce, New Year's, spring, fall, or winter, next Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, or the moment you die, 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 is watching.

Parable about the search for happiness

It was a long time ago when the Lord created the earth, trees, animals and people. Man became master 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 obey the man. And they went around the world in search of human happiness. They searched for a long time, but did not find his happiness, because they did not even know what it looked like. And so they decided to bring what made them happy. The fish brought fins, tail, gills and scales. Tiger - strong paws, claws, fangs and nose. Eagle - wings, feathers, strong beak and a sharp eye. But none of this made a person happy. And then the animals told him to go himself to seek his happiness.
Since then, every person has been walking the earth and looking for his own happiness, but few people guess to look for it in themselves.

The big dog, seeing a 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 no dog before me solved; I learned that the best thing for a dog is happiness and that my happiness is in the tail, so I chase him, and when I catch him, he will be mine.
- Son, - said the dog, - I was also interested in world problems and formed my opinion about it. I also realized that happiness is great for a dog and that my happiness is in the tail, but I noticed that wherever I go, whatever I do, he follows me.

Once Happiness was walking through the forest and suddenly fell into a hole, sits in it and cries bitterly.
A man walked past, Happiness heard steps and shouts from the pit:
- Person! Kind! Get me out of here!
- And what will you give me for this? the man asks.
- And what do you want? - in the answer asked Happiness.
- I want a big and beautiful house with a sea view that costs a million dollars...
Happiness gave a man a home, he was delighted and immediately retired to it, completely forgetting about helping Happiness. Happiness sits in a hole, cries even louder. A second man was walking past, Happiness heard steps and shouted to him:
- Nice man! Get me out of here!
- And what will you give me for this? he asks.
- And what do you want?
- I want a lot of beautiful and expensive cars, a wide variety of brands.
Happiness gave the man everything that he asked for. And he was so happy that he immediately sped off home - to run in his new cars ...
Happiness has completely lost hope. Suddenly he hears a third person coming. Happiness called him:
- Kind person! Get me out of here, please... The man pulled Happiness out of the hole and went on. Happiness, stunned with joy, skipped after him and asked:
- Buddy, what do you want for helping me?
“Yes, I don’t need anything,” the strange man smiled. Since then, Happiness has been running after that person, never lagging behind him ...

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One day three brothers saw Happiness sitting in a hole. One of the brothers approached the pit and asked Shchastya for money. Happiness endowed him with money, and he left happy. Another brother asked beautiful woman. He immediately received it and ran away with her, beside himself with happiness. The third brother leaned over the pit:
- What do you need? - asked Happiness
— What do you need? the brother asked.
“Get me out of here,” Happiness asked.
Brother stretched out his hand, pulled Happiness out of the pit, turned and walked away. And Happiness followed him...

When one of the founders of The Beatles, John Lennon, was small, 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 assignment!" The future great musician answered: "You don't understand life!"
And he was right. The dream of any person is to be happy. But what kind of feeling is this, and how to feel and keep it?
Blind me happiness
God molded a man out of clay, and he had an unused piece left.
- What else to blind you? God asked.
“Blind me happiness,” the man asked.
God did not answer, and only put the remaining piece of clay in the man's palm.
happiness in the hole
Happiness wandered around the world, and everyone who met him on the way, fulfilled wishes. One day, Happiness, through negligence, fell into a hole and could not get out. People came up to the pit and made their wishes, and Happiness fulfilled them. Nobody was in a hurry to help Happiness get upstairs.
And then a young guy came up to the pit. He looked at Happiness, but did not demand anything, but asked: "You, Happiness, what do you want?"
"Get out of here," - said Happiness.
The guy helped him out and went on his way. And Happiness ... Happiness ran after him.
Can you buy happiness?
Once 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, I am,” God replied.
- What can I buy from you? the woman asked.
“You can buy everything from me,” came the answer.
- In that case, give me happiness, please.
God smiled benevolently and went to the utility room for the ordered goods. After a while he returned with a small paper box.
- And it's all?! exclaimed the surprised and disappointed woman.
“Yes, that’s all,” God replied. "Didn't you know that my store only sells seeds?"
Parable about the science of being happy
Once a wise man was walking along the road, admiring the beauty of the world and enjoying life. Suddenly he noticed an unfortunate man hunched under an unbearable burden.
Why are you subjecting yourself to such suffering? - asked the sage.
“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.
- And was at least someone happy in your family? - asked the sage.
- No, but my children and grandchildren will definitely be happy! - answered the unfortunate man.
- An illiterate person will not 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 concepts of happiness
Once upon a time there were three friends in the world, and each dreamed of his own happiness. But happiness seemed to them in different ways. The first thought that happiness is wealth, the second thought talent was happiness, and the third believed that happiness was a family.
Long, 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. Dying a miser and a misanthrope.
The second one said:
- I was talented, but I did not experience happiness. I am leaving this life tormented by loneliness.
The third one said:
- And I knew what happiness is. I leave caressed by my loved ones and leave the most valuable thing to the earth - new people.
Parable about the search for happiness
It was a long time ago when the Lord created the earth, trees, animals and people. Man became master 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 obey the man. And they went around the world in search of human happiness. They searched for a long time, but did not find his happiness, because they did not even know what it looked like. And so they decided to bring what made them happy. The fish brought fins, tail, gills and scales. Tiger - strong paws, claws, fangs and nose. Eagle - wings, feathers, a strong beak and a sharp eye. But none of this made a person happy. And then the animals told him to go himself to seek his happiness.
Since then, every person has been walking the earth and looking for his own happiness, but few people guess to look for it in themselves.

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