Sometimes - Little
Stories Which Say Much.
-Together-
Robyn Vasco
Smashwords
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Copyright 2011 Robyn Vasco
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There is new story for every day.
The old grandfather and the grandchild
A woman prays to god because she
wanted to see heaven and hell. God offers this to her and led her
into a big room. In the middle of the room is a huge pot with a
delicious meal cooking on a fire. Around the fire people are sitting
with extremely long spoons; everybody is picking in this pot, but
they look pale and sickly skinny and painting a picture of misery. As
much they try, the spoons are too long. They aren't able to bring the
wonderful food into their mouth.
"What a weird place",
said the women. "That," answers god "is hell."
They
go in a second room, which looks exactly like the first. There is
also a fire burning and on top a delicious meal brewing. People are
sitting around, they also have spoons with long sticks, but they are
all looking healthy and strong and laugh together. One feeds the
other with his long spoon.
"And this," said god, "is
heaven."
A couple celebrates their golden
wedding. On joint breakfast the woman thinks: "For fifty years I
have taken care of my husband and given him the crunchy upper part of
the bun. Today I'm going to have it for myself." She butters the
upper part of the bun and gives the other half to her husband.
"My
dear", he says with such a pleasure, "what a gorgeous
morning! For fifty years I haven't eaten the lower part of the bun,
although I enjoy it the most. I have always thought: I let you have
the lower part of the bun, because you enjoy it as much as I do."
One day the king realised that he has
been getting old. He called his two sons into the hall. He told them:
"You have until noon time to fill this hall." He gave them
one silver coin, which wasn't much. "Whichever one of you can do
this is going to be my successor."
They both went. The older
one went to a field on which farmers were harvesting wheat.
"I'll
give you one silver coin for your chaff of the wheat." The
farmers were relieved they could sell their chaff, and even brought
it into the castle. "You can crown me now," called the
older son to his father, "I just filled the whole hall."
But
the father still wanted to wait. When the sun was setting, the other
son finally came. "Please take this useless chaff out of the
room", he said. After everything was out of the room, everybody
was exited for what the younger son would now do. He walked into the
middle of the room, put a candle down and lighted it. The whole room
was filled with warm, pleasant light, which illuminated the faces of
the king, his two sons, the servants and maidservants.
The old
king smiled: "You will be my successor."
The old grandfather and the grandchild
Once lived an old man, whose eyes were
unclear, ears deaf, and knees shaking. He would sit at the table,
without being able to use his spoon; the soup would flow on the table
and run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were disgusted
by the old man, so he had to sit in the corner behind the oven. They
gave him food in a little bowl but he was never given enough. Once,
when the old man couldn't hold his meal because of his shivery hand,
the bowl fell to the ground and broke. The woman bought an old wooden
bowl for the old man to eat out of.
As they sat there, the young
grandchild, who was now at the age of four, collected some pieces of
wood off the ground. "What are you doing, my child?" asked
the father. "I'm making a little bowl", he answered, "so
that mamma and daddy can eat out of it when I'm big." At this
moment his father and mother looked at each other and began to cry.
They took the old grandfather back to the table and since then have
always eaten together.
A French wise man passed with some
Arabic researchers the desert. When the sun sets, the Arabic people
put their prayer rug on the sand and prayed. The French wise man
asks:
"What are you doing?"
"I pray."
"To
whom?"
"To Allah."
"So, did you ever see
him, touch him, feel him?"
"No", the researcher
was answering. "Then, how do you can believe to him?"
The
next morning, when the French wise man crawled out of his tent, he
pointed out to one of the Arabics:
"There must have been a
camel around here tonight!"
"So, how do you know that?
Did you see the camel, touch it, or feel it?"
"Well,
no, but you can see footprints around this tent!" The Arabic
points to the horizon, where the sun was rising in all her glory:
"There you can see: the footprint of god!"
Two sisters once lived together. The
younger one was married and had children, the older one was
unmarried. They had always worked together; ploughing the field and
spreading seeds. When it was the time for reaping, they shared the
sheaves into two equal parts. In the night the older one couldn't
find her piece of mind: "My sister has a family, I'm alone and
without children and she needs more crops than me."
Restlessly,
she stood up and walked in secret to give some of her crops to her
sister.
The younger sister also couldn't sleep: "My sister is
alone and has no children, who is gonna care of her?" She arose
to take some of her crops to them of her sister.
Half way, in the
middle of the field, they met each other. Both of them realised how
much they care of each other. They dropped the crops and hugged.
Since then it is said that this site is holy.
One day a completely exhausted man
visits a priest: "Priest, I don't know what I can change. I have
a little hut, it only has one room and I have six children. It's to
small."
The priest asks: "Do you have some chickens or
any goats?"
"Yes", answers the man.
"Take
the animals into your hut and visit me again in three days."
After
three days the man visits the priest again and he groans: "Priest,
we can't do this anymore! None of us can move, and the goat just
stinks!"
"Good," says the priest, "so now
chuck all the animals out of your hut and speak to me tomorrow."
The
next day the priest asks: "How do you feel today, and what do
you now think about your house?"
"It's amazing," he
shines, "there is so much space - just like in a palace."
One day an old anchoress was visited
by some wanderers.
They asked her: "Which sense do you see
in a life full of calm?" In that moment she was taking water out
of a deep cistern. "Look into the cistern, what do you see?”,
she asked.
The visitors said: "We can't see anything."
After a while the old anchoress asked them again to look inside
it: "So, what do you see?" They looked down and they saw
themselves. The old anchoress spoke: "When I took water out of
the cistern, the water was disturbed, and you all couldn't see
yourself, but now the water is calm and you can see yourselves.
That's the experience of calmness.”
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