A famous love tale (2)

And so the spider is changed to a girl and born into a rich family. Her name is Spider. Time passes quickly and suddenly she is sixteen years old, beautiful and smart.

One day the king arranges a big party and introduces a man to everybody. This man is well trained with both the pen and the sword. The king wants him to be his minister. This man’s name is Drop.

There are a lot of girls at the party, including Spider and also the little princess Wind.
After Drop shows his talent, all the girls are crazy about him. He is amazing! But Spider is not worried about that. She is sure she will get Drop, because the marriage is arranged by Siddhartha.

Spider walks together with her mother on the street. They meet Drop and his mother occasionally. Because both mothers know each other, Spider has the chance to talk with Drop. She is very happy that she can stay with him alone. But Drop does not show that he is interested in her. Spider is very surprised and sad. She asks him: ”Have you already forgot what happened on the spider web sixteen years ago?” Drop is surprised too and says to Spider: ”Ms Spider, you are beautiful and smart, but I don’t like your fanny imagination.” He then leaves with his mum.

Spider runs home and cries, she does not understand, since Siddhartha arranges everything, why did he not let Drop remember what happened in the temple? Why doesn’t Drop have feelings for her?

A few more days, the king arranges that Drop will marry with the princess Wind and the prince Grass will marry with Spider. Spider is very shocked when she hears the news. She cannot believe why Siddhartha would arrange this to hurt her. She is sad and doesn’t want to live any more in this disappointing world. She does not eat or drink and almost dies.

The prince Grass hears and comes hurriedly. He knees beside her bed and says: “I love you since I first saw you at the party. I pleased my father a long time that I want to marry you. At last he agreed. Please wake up! If you die, I will follow you to die!” He takes a knife and wants to kill himself.

At this moment Siddhartha comes and says to the spirit of Spider: ”Little spider, now you should realize that the drop came to you because of the wind, and later also the wind flew it away. Drop belongs to princess Wind. This is her fate. Prince Grass, was a small grass in front of the temple door. He has looked at you for 3000 years and loved for 3000 years, but you never bowed your head to look at him.“ Siddhartha sighs and then asks spider: “Now spider, I ask you the question again, what is the most important in the heart?”

After hearing what Siddhartha says, her spirit looks at the prince Grass, whom wants to kill himself. The Spider suddenly understands. She answers Siddhartha confidently ”Now I know, what is the most important in the heart, it is catching what you have now!” Siddhartha smiles, nods his head and disappears.

Spider wakes up, takes away the knife from prince Grass and hugs him deeply.

A famous love tale

Long long ago, there was a Buddhist temple, with a lot of followers coming every day. A spider, living on the ceiling of the temple, listened to the religious piety day by day. The spider has been thinking and thinking for more than thousand years. Now it truly can think a lot.

One day Siddhartha comes to the temple, he sees that he has a lot of followers and is very happy. Before he leaves, by chance, he sees the spider on the ceiling. He says to the spider: ”we meet each other by fate, now I ask you a question for checking what you have learned in the last thousand years.” The spider is excited and agrees quickly. Siddhartha asks: ”What is the most important in the heart?” The spider thinks for a while and answers: ”The thing you cannot get or already lost is the most important.” Siddhartha nods his head and leaves.

After another thousand years, the spider still lives on the ceiling in the temple, and now knows even more. One day Siddhartha comes again and asks the spider: ”How are you these years? Do you still remember the question I asked you a thousand years ago? Now what do you think about it?” The spider answers: ”I still think the thing that what you cannot get or you have already lost is the most important in the heart.” Siddhartha says: ”Please think about it more carefully and I will come and ask you again.”

A thousand years are still away when one day a big wind blew a raindrop on the web of the spider. The drop shines beautiful and the spider likes it very much. Everyday it looks at the drop happily. These days together with the drop are the happiest days in the last 3000 years. But soon, the wind comes again and blows the drop away. The spider feels like it lost something, it begins to feel sad and lonely.

It is at this time that Siddhartha comes again. He asks the spider: ”How about my question? Did you change your mind?” The spider remembers the drop suddenly, which it cannot get but now has lost. So it tells to Siddhartha that it is the same answer. Siddhartha looks at it and says: “Alright, if you think like this, I will change you to be a human and let you find the best answer for yourself.”

To be continue…

Mature wheat will bow its body

There is a therapist who is very professional. After he retired, he still wants to help his patients, so he opens a small private clinic. A lot of young doctors who want to get his guidance come to visit him and want to be the assistant of him. He chooses one of them who looks smartest and works together with him. He is the teacher and the young doctor is his assistant and helps him. Because of their good cooperation, more and more patients come to visit his clinic. They do not want the patients to wait long, so they decide to work separately.

They decide that the patient who gets simple disease, for example catches a cold or cough will be for the young assistant to help, while special cases go to the therapist himself. The patients can, depending on their illness, choose the doctor when they register.

After a period of time, more and more patients only want the young assistant to check them. At the beginning, the old therapist is very happy and proud of his assistant. He thinks that because the assistant cures all the simple disease, there will be less serious ones.

Till one day, by chance, the old therapist finds that some patients, who look quite bad, but insist on choosing the young assistant. He is very surprised and does not understand what happened with these patients and why they did not choose him? “I’m the specialist, I have more experiences, why they don’t choose me?” The doctor murmurs himself. “I just got the medical academy honorary award, all the newspapers wrote about it, they also showed my picture, a big one.” He talks to himself incoherently.

At last the old therapist hires a detective to check what’s the problem in his clinic. So the detective pretends to have a cold and comes to visit the clinic.

First he finds the woman at the register. She is politely and does not hint the patients on which doctor they should choose. Then he also finds that the patients who come for the first time, will -depending on his illness- choose the related doctor. The problem is, when they come the second time. Some of the patients who belong to the old therapist will change to the young assistant to check them.

Soon the detective knows the reason why they change the doctor.

The young assistant knows he has not enough work experiences, so he will ask the patient about his illness very carefully, talks with them friendly and also encourage them: ”Don’t worry, everything will be ok!” or “ You need to drink more water, get more sleep and then you will be better.” This kind of encouraging words will make the patients’ heart very warm. They have much more effects for the illness than any medicines.

The old therapist on the other hand is experienced and confident about his knowledge, so he checks the patient quickly. When the patient just tells him a little his symptom, he already knows which kind of disease the patient has. He always looks cool, but seldom talks with his patients. So it looks like he does not care about what illness the patient has, since he has no sympathy.

Actually all what the old doctor is very professional, but the patients will misunderstand it easily. They would think: He doesn’t care about me, so he will not check me good.

When the detective tells the therapist his findings, the old doctor is shocked and says:” Yes! My god, why I didn't see this myself?”

This is the philosophy of ”Ripping wheat”. This problem easily happens, even on the most knowledgeable specialist or scholar. They don’t want to be arrogant or overbearing intentionally but they are situated in a high position and therefore have a sense of distance to the layman.

So don’t forget! The wheat, which is more mature, will bow its body more. Or we can also say: "The person who knows, but stays modest will be more successful".

In front of one dollar

One day I read an interesting question in a book, so I share it with my friends.

The question starts with two choices:

You get 1 million dollars today, or you get 1 dollar today, 2 dollars tomorrow, 4 dollars the day after tomorrow and so on, each day twice the day before, for 30 days.

All my friends are attracted by the 1 million dollar upfront. But when they know that the second choice counts up to 5 billion dollars, are very shocked and cannot believe it.

This question tells us, we shouldn't anticipate getting rich in one night, rather to be patient and work on constantly increase ones income.

Today it may only be one dollar, but you work hard and tomorrow you will earn two. Everyday will get you a step forward.

Success is a non-stop process.

Salt in the coffee (2)

...continue it from yesterday

He wrote the letter before he dies, he wrote it to her:

My dear, forgive me, but I cheated you your whole life! Remember the first time we met? I invited you to drink a coffee with me. At that time I was very nervous didn’t know what I should talk with you, because you look so beautiful.

When the waitress came I didn’t know why I let her bring some salt, I didn’t need salt! Of course I also don’t want to put salt in my coffee. But I already said so and had no idea why.

My love, because of your curiosity, half my lifetime I had to drink coffee with salt. You don’t know how bad the taste is! I always wanted to tell you the truth, but I worried you would be angry and leave me.

But now I'm not scared any more, because a dying person is always forgiven, right?

After reading his letter, she is shock and feels cheated. But she knows if she had a chance she would tell him: ”I'm the luckiest women in the world because you followed your bitter lie your whole life. Only for me!”

Salt in the coffee

He and she first met each other at a party. She is beautiful and has a lot of followers. He is a normal man.

Gathered up his courage, he asks her out to for a coffee. She is surprised, but wants to be polite, so she accepts his offer.

Sitting inside the coffee shop, the atmosphere between them is rather embarrassing. He cannot find an interesting topic and she gets bored. She only wants to end this as soon as possible.

Everything is changed through when he unreasonably asks the waitress “Please bring me a little salt, I like to drinking coffee with salt”.

She is shocked, the waitress too, and everybody who heard it is shocked as well. Salt? They all turn the face to look at him.


And so the waitress brings the salt, he puts a little bit in the coffee and then drinks very slowly. Now the woman is curious and can’t help asking: ”Why do you drink your coffee with salt?” he is silent for a while and then answers, with each word very carefully and slowly: “when I was a child, I lived beside the sea. At that time I liked to swim in the sea. I always happened to drink some seawater. It’s bitter and salty. I have not gone home for a very long time. I miss my home, I miss the taste of the seawater. That’s why I drink my coffee with salt.”

His story touches her. This is the first time a man tells her about his childhood and his family. Especially the way he misses his past attracts her deeply. She suddenly has the feeling that she can tell him everything about herself. She wants to tell him about her childhood and her warm family. After a long talk, he walks her home.

They meet each other often. She thinks he is very attractive, has a good character and is thoughtful. They fall in love with each other. She is happy she didn’t miss this man.

She brings him to visit all the coffee shop in the city, and every time she would ask the waitress:” bring me some salt please, my boyfriend drinks his coffee with salt.”

And then just like in a fairy tale, “The prince and the princess are married and have a beautiful life.”

Indeed they have 40 lucky years together before he dies.

The story looks finished if without a letter!

To be continued…

The bet

A couple, both lazy and greedy. Always fighting for every cent.

They are poor because they don’t like work. One day they use all their money to buy three cakes. At home, each of them takes one cake and eats quickly, because they worry the other one will rob his cake. After finishing their own cake, they both stare at the third one silently. Each of them wants to get the cake, without sharing.

So, the husband has an idea, he asks his wife: “Do you want to bet? The one who first begins to talk will lose and has to give up the cake!” The wife says: ”Ok, it’s a snap, of course I will win. The bet is on”.

And so they begin. They sit in the room, looking at each other, without a word. Silent, they even sneeze carefully.

Soon night is coming. They still sit there looking at each other. Waiting for the other one to speak.

In the mean time, a thief walks around the house. Listening if the house is empty or not. And since the house is very quietly, the thief opens the door and walks inside.

He carefully walks inside the living room. Suddenly he finds two people sitting there. He is shocked and wants to run. But they just look at him. Alarmed, but without a word. Nobody moves nor screams. The thief is very surprised, but he has no time to think, what‘s on with this couple. So he takes from them as if they would not be here. The couple looks at him, with pity eyes and hurt face, but without a word.

“I’m a lucky boy today, there are two psychopaths.” the thief laughs loudly. And then he puts the entire valuable thing in his parcel and is ready to go. The couple looks at all what the thief does. Their hearts are broken. But they still sit here quietly.

Before the thief is gone, he sees the wife. She looks not bad, so he begins by the way to flirt with her. This time the wife can not bear it any more, she jumps up and cries out loudly: ”Thief! Catch the thief!” and then turns back to her husband, pointing the finger on him and screams angrily: ”You stupid fool! Because of a cake, you just sit there and see the thief steal everything in front of you! You are a stupid donkey!”

And so the husband laughs loudly, while catching the cake: ”Ha-ha… my lovely dear, you lose! I knew the cake at last would be mine!”

The choice we choose today, decides the life we will have in the future.

There are three men who have to stay in the prison for 3 years. The warden allows that each of them can have one request before they go inside the prison.
The American loves smoking, he requests three boxes of cigar which are together with him in this 3 years.
The French loves romance, he requests a beautiful woman who will stay with him in this 3 years.
The Jew’s request is that he wants a telephone.
After 3 years, both nose holes and mouth are chocked with cigar, the American first rushes outside and screams around “Fire! Give me a fire! I want to a fire!” ha-ha… 3 years ago he asked for cigars but forgot the fire!
The second walking outside is the French, he carries a little baby, a pregnant woman and a small boy are following him.
The last one is the Judie, he walks outside and shakes the warden’s hand warmly. He says: "because every day I can connect with outside through the telephone, my business has not stopped but increased in 200% in this 3 years. Thank you very much for giving me this chance to have a telephone! I will give you a Benz as a reward!”

Give and take

Long long ago, there was a greedy landlord. He always wanted to squeeze something from his workers, but never wants to give them even one more cent.
One day the landlord walks along the river and carelessly falls inside. Unfortunately he can not swim, so he cries out "Help! Help! i can not swim!" His workers hear his voice and run to help him. One of the workers stretches his hand and screams: "Give me your hand, give me your hand, i will catch you!" but the landlord, it seems can not hear what the worker says and continues crying out: "Help! Help! Who can help me?!" The worker screams one more time, but the landlord is still yelling out "Help! Help!".
At last when the landlord almost drowns, the other worker realizes something. He says to the landlord "Take my hand, my lord" . And so the landlord immediately catches his hand and is saved.