Once Upon a time in the ancient Chinese epoch, there was a regal castle where a haughty and arrogant king lived there. He was eager to conquer all the part of Chinese mainland, there were no complacency. In the early one morning, The King and his escorts went out from castle to enjoy the morning fresh air. In the crowded, The King brush-passed with a beggar.
The King accosted The Beggar, “What did you want from me?”
The Beggar smile and replied, “My Majesty, It seem as if you could granted my entreaty”
The King was shocked, He felt he was challenged.
“Of Course I could granted your entreaty. What did you want, Just Said it!”
Then The Beggar began to say, “ I advised Majesty to think again what Majesty had said, before compiled its with my wishes.”
Evidently, The Beggar wasn’t an ordinary beggar. He was a God, transfigured into a beggar to test the King, However The King didn’t realize it. The haughty and displeasure in King arised, because of the advice from the beggar.
“I had told you before, I could comply your wishes, whatever it was! I was The Mighty and The Richest King.”
With his humble and modest heart, The Beggar showed up his alms-bowl and said,”My Majesty, I only asked you to fill this bowl with the precious things that you ever had.”
Stupendously, The King looked furious to hear the beggar’s defiance. Immediately, The King ordered The Monarchy Treasurer who stand beside The King to fill the bowl with Gold. Then, The Monarchy Treasurer poured The Gold to the bowl from the big pockets that The King had brought. Looked weird, The Gold from The King’s pockets couldn’t fill up the bowl. Didn’t want to look disgrace in front of his mass, The King kept on ordering The Treasurer to fill up the bowl. Nevertheless, The Bowl kept on empty. Even all the King’s Gold, Diamond, etc. already drain away by the bowl. It seem there was a hole in the bottom of the bowl.
Stupendously, The King looked furious to hear the beggar’s defiance. Immediately, The King ordered The Monarchy Treasurer who stand beside The King to fill the bowl with Gold. Then, The Monarchy Treasurer poured The Gold to the bowl from the big pockets that The King had brought. Looked weird, The Gold from The King’s pockets couldn’t fill up the bowl. Didn’t want to look disgrace in front of his mass, The King kept on ordering The Treasurer to fill up the bowl. Nevertheless, The Bowl kept on empty. Even all the King’s Gold, Diamond, etc. already drain away by the bowl. It seem there was a hole in the bottom of the bowl.
Unconsciously, The King kneeled down in front of The Beggar, Then The Beggar emerged into his real form. The King was extremely shocked when he saw a God figure in front of him.
“The Greed King, listen to me, arrogant and haughty were never ended, just like this holled-bowl. How many treasures that you had, that you put it into the bowl, it would be merged into it. So that, made your beneficence and kindness as the foundation from the bowl of life”.
After listened to The God’s messages, The King realized and promised to be a beneficence and kind King.
~Haughty and Greed were the root we had to lift out, the hole itself we should to hatch, just like artesian-well, haughty and greed had no ground. Desire made human remised into world matters. Uproot bad ones and grew all of that with beneficence, and gratituted to what we already had at this moment, and also did a lot of benevolent activities everyday~
From Me,
Success and Wisdom
Bodhi Taruna
