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Mind is filled, mind is emptied.
All is mind.
K
On 4/23/2012 11:57 PM, salik888 wrote:
A BAG OF NAILS
Once upon a time there was a little boy with a bad temper. His father
gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his
temper, he should hammer a nail in the fence. The first day the boy
had driven 37 nails into the fence. But gradually, the number of daily
nails dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper
than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the first day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.
He proudly told his father about it and the father suggested that the
boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his
temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his
father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the
hand and led him to the fence.
"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The
fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave
a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it
out, it won't matter how many times you say 'I'm sorry', the wound is
still there."
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