Everything Happens for the Good
There was once a King who had a wise advisor. The advisor followed the King everywhere, and his favorite advice was, “Everything happens for the good”. One day the King went hunting and had a little accident. He shot an arrow at his own foot and was injured. He asked the advisor what he thought about the accident, to which the advisor replied, “Everything happens for the good”. This time the King was really upset and ordered for his advisor to be put in prison. The King asked his advisor, “Now, what do you think?” The advisor again replied, “Everything happens for the good”. So the advisor remained in prison.
The King later went on a hunting trip, this time without the advisor. The King was then captured by some cannibals. He was taken to the cannibals' camp where he was to be the evening meal for the cannibals. Before putting him into the cooking pot he was thoroughly inspected. The cannibals saw the wound on the King’s foot and decided to throw him back into the jungle. According to the cannibals' tradition, they would not eat anything that was imperfect. As a result the King was spared. The King suddenly realized what his advisor said was true. The advisor also escaped death because had he not been in prison, he would have followed the King on the hunting trip, and would have ended up in the cooking pot.
Excellent..... learned many things from this. ||Thanks
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hussain
OP and Yoda - very true.
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Don't want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
there is another one by Rumi:
Once a prophet was going to wear his shoe when an eagle came along and took it away. the prophet saw that a snake fell out of the shoe before the eagle dropped it off.
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MISFORTUNE
Look carefully around you and recognize
the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those
who draw you to that.
When misfortune comes, you must quickly praise.
Others may be saying, Oh no, but you
will be opening out like a rose
losing itself petal by petal.
Someone once asked a great sheikh
what sufism was.
"The feeling of joy
when sudden disappointment comes.'
Don't grieve for what doesn't come
Some things that don't happen
keep disasters from happening.
--Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)