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There are two ways to look at the happenings of the world.
1. Everything happens due to chance
2. Everything happens for a reason
Your course of life is decided based on what you believe.
1: It Happens due to Chance
Some people believe that everything happens as a matter of chance. For example they argue that if Mahatma Gandhi became a great leader,Bill Gates became a great entrepreneur or Barak Obama became the President of United States, it is only because they were born in the right time, at the right place with the right attributes. They argue that if these great people would have born in a different time in a different country, they would have never succeeded to achieve what they achieved in life.
In other words, these people were simply lucky to achieve the success.
In the same way they also argue that people fail not because of their fault but simply because they have bad luck.
Please read this Zen story to understand the thoughts of such people.
There was a farmer whose only horse ran away. On that evening the neighbours gathered to sympathize with him, for surely this was such bad luck. Now your farm will suffer and you will not be able to plow, the neighbours warned the farmer. Such a terrible thing to have happened to you, they said.
The farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
The next day the horse returned and brought him six wild horses, and the neighbours came to congratulate him and celebrate his good fortune. Now you are richer than before,they said. Surely now this has turned out to be such a very good thing, for you, after all.
The farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
The following day, the son saddled and rode one of the wild horses. He was thrown off the horse and broke his leg. Now the son could notwork on the farm. Again the neighbours came to offer their sympathy for such an inconvenient truth. They noted that there was more work than the farmer could handle and surely now he would become poor. Such bad luck, indeed.
The farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
The day after that, conscription officers came to the village to take all the young men for the army, but because of his broken leg,the farmer’s son was disallowed. When the neigbours arrived again, they said how very fortunate the farmer was, as things had worked out after all. Knowing well that most young men never return from the war alive, this was the best fortune yet.
And the old farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
Reading such stories, you can believe that everything is random and you can’t say if something happens for good or for bad.
2: It Happens Due toReason
The other school of thought is that everything happens in the world for a reason. Albert Einstein once said: "God does not play dice", while expressing his contempt for the notion that the universe is governed by probability. The people who believe in this theory argue that for every effect there is a cause and every course of action follows a law. It is only due to our ignorance of the laws of the world, we find such happenings random. This is illustrated by this famous story of Mulla Nasruddin.
Nasruddin was cutting a branch of a tree in his garden one day. While he was sawing, a man passed by in the street and said—‘Excuse me,but if continue to saw that branch like that, you will fall down with it.’
He said this because Nasruddin was sitting on that very branch. Nasruddin said nothing. He thought—‘This is some foolish person who has no work to do but go around telling other people what to do and what not to do.’
The man continued on his way. Of course, after a few minutes, the branch fell and Nasruddin fell with it.
‘My God!’ he cried. ‘That man knows the future!’
He ran after him to ask how long he was going to live. But the man had already gone.
Most of us would have predicted the fall of Nasruddin as we know what would happen when you cut the tree on which you are sitting. However,for some people, who are ignorant, it was nothing but a miracle.
1. Everything happens due to chance
2. Everything happens for a reason
Your course of life is decided based on what you believe.
1: It Happens due to Chance
Some people believe that everything happens as a matter of chance. For example they argue that if Mahatma Gandhi became a great leader,Bill Gates became a great entrepreneur or Barak Obama became the President of United States, it is only because they were born in the right time, at the right place with the right attributes. They argue that if these great people would have born in a different time in a different country, they would have never succeeded to achieve what they achieved in life.
In other words, these people were simply lucky to achieve the success.
In the same way they also argue that people fail not because of their fault but simply because they have bad luck.
Please read this Zen story to understand the thoughts of such people.
There was a farmer whose only horse ran away. On that evening the neighbours gathered to sympathize with him, for surely this was such bad luck. Now your farm will suffer and you will not be able to plow, the neighbours warned the farmer. Such a terrible thing to have happened to you, they said.
The farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
The next day the horse returned and brought him six wild horses, and the neighbours came to congratulate him and celebrate his good fortune. Now you are richer than before,they said. Surely now this has turned out to be such a very good thing, for you, after all.
The farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
The following day, the son saddled and rode one of the wild horses. He was thrown off the horse and broke his leg. Now the son could notwork on the farm. Again the neighbours came to offer their sympathy for such an inconvenient truth. They noted that there was more work than the farmer could handle and surely now he would become poor. Such bad luck, indeed.
The farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
The day after that, conscription officers came to the village to take all the young men for the army, but because of his broken leg,the farmer’s son was disallowed. When the neigbours arrived again, they said how very fortunate the farmer was, as things had worked out after all. Knowing well that most young men never return from the war alive, this was the best fortune yet.
And the old farmer said, “maybe yes, maybe no.”
Reading such stories, you can believe that everything is random and you can’t say if something happens for good or for bad.
2: It Happens Due toReason
The other school of thought is that everything happens in the world for a reason. Albert Einstein once said: "God does not play dice", while expressing his contempt for the notion that the universe is governed by probability. The people who believe in this theory argue that for every effect there is a cause and every course of action follows a law. It is only due to our ignorance of the laws of the world, we find such happenings random. This is illustrated by this famous story of Mulla Nasruddin.
Nasruddin was cutting a branch of a tree in his garden one day. While he was sawing, a man passed by in the street and said—‘Excuse me,but if continue to saw that branch like that, you will fall down with it.’
He said this because Nasruddin was sitting on that very branch. Nasruddin said nothing. He thought—‘This is some foolish person who has no work to do but go around telling other people what to do and what not to do.’
The man continued on his way. Of course, after a few minutes, the branch fell and Nasruddin fell with it.
‘My God!’ he cried. ‘That man knows the future!’
He ran after him to ask how long he was going to live. But the man had already gone.
Most of us would have predicted the fall of Nasruddin as we know what would happen when you cut the tree on which you are sitting. However,for some people, who are ignorant, it was nothing but a miracle.
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