story of old wise women??
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A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits. The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there.
The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a slightly bigger plant. The youth pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. “Now pull out that one,” said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out.
“Now take this one out,” said the old man, indicating a guava tree. The youth grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. But it would not budge. “It’s impossible,” said the boy, panting with the effort.
“So it is with bad habits,” said the sage. “When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted.”
The session with the old man changed the boy’s life.
Moral: Don’t wait for Bad Habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it else they will get control you.
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Long long ago, a cruel young king ruled over a small village in Japan. The village was a very pretty village, nestling in a valley, surrounded by hills and mountains. But although a pretty village, it was not always a peaceful place to be because the king often ruined the peace with his rough and cruel ways.
One day he said "Old people in my village are useless". "They are not able to work for a living, they do no good - they simply eat our food. From now on, anyone over sixty-five must be sent away from the village and left in the mountains to die."
The king punished anyone who disobeyed him and so those who reached sixty-five were carried into the mountains by members of their families, never to return.
Now in this village, a kind young farmer and his mother lived. The two of them lived happily together, but the mother was growing older. The day came when the mother reached the terrible age of sixty-five. The kind young farmer was very upset - how could he take his mother up the mountains and leave her to die? She had cared for him as a baby, looked after him as a child, been his friend as an adult. "No", said the farmer "it's not right". But he was afraid of the king because he knew that he himself would be killed once the king realised that his mother was still living with him. The farmer now had his own family - a wife and one small son and he knew that they might also be harmed.The young farmer could not lie. "Well", he said, "for the past two years I have kept my mother hidden beneath my house, in a secret room. She is now sixty-seven years old. She solved each of your problems. You should be thanking her, not me, for saving the village. "
The young king was shocked and surprised but, surprisingly, he was not angry. He said nothing for some minutes, as he thought about the wise old woman. He slowly realised how much wisdom old people possess and how important that wisdom was to everyone else in the village.
"What I have done has been very wrong", he said finally. "I must ask the forgiveness of your mother and of all my people. Never again will I demand that the old people of our village be sent to the mountains to die. From now on, older people must be treated with the respect and honour they deserve and share with us the wisdom that they have built up over the years."
The villagers cheered and celebrated, although there was still sadness over the older people who had already been taken to the mountains. But from that day on, the old people of the village were no longer forced to leave and the village became once more a happy and peaceful place.