"There was once in China an expert archer. One day she went to a very high mountain with her bow on her back. While strolling on the mountain, she became thirsty and wanted some water to drink. Fortunately, she found a small spring under a bush, and she immediately bent over the water to drink it out of her hands until her thirst was quenched.
When she finished drinking, however, she thought she saw a snake crawling in the water. She immediately felt sick. She became seriously nervous about the water in her stomach, feeling something wriggling in it. When she got back home she became seriously ill. Numerous doctors gave her medical treatment, but in vain; finally, she became nothing but skin and bones, resigning herself to die.
One day a traveler stopped at her home. Seeing the condition of the patient, she asked the reason. The patient told him that she saw a snake crawling in the water of the spring and that she had swallowed the snake. The traveler said thats he could cure the illness if the patient would do as he told her to do, taking him to the same spring where she had drunk the water.
He told the patient, who was bearing the same bow on her back, to take the same pose as she had before. The patient reluctantly bent over the water and was just going to scoop it up in her hands when she screamed out that a snake was crawling in the water again. The man told her to be quiet and to observe the snake more closely. The archer got control of herself and found that it was not a snake at all, but the shadow of the bow she was carrying on her back.
The archer realized that the snake she thought she had swallowed before was only the shadow of her bow. After this, she felt quite relieved, and soon she regained her health.
We must recognize that often, our mind is the creator of our 'fate.'
1 comment:
ok, ok I get your point!!
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