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What's your cow?
This is the story of a spiritual teacher who traveled with his disciple and took every opportunity to teach him about life.
On one occasion, he saw a very humble hut and told his disciple
that they would ask perched on it and would stay there that night.
They did it and when it came time for dinner, asked the head of the house how did they live,
because there were no crops or some other source of livelihood.
He said he had a cow that gave them some milk every day, which consumed a bit
and the remain they sold it in the nearest town and with the money they collected bought some food.
This had been his way of life for years.
Before dawn, the master woke his disciple and told him to get up quietly
and threw the cow over the cliff that was behind the house.
At first, the disciple refused because he believed it was unfair and immoral to do something like that,
knowing it was the only source of livelihood for the family,
but as a disciple had to obey the order of the master.
Early in the day they left.
The disciple was so tormented by what he had done that after two
years he left his teacher and return to the humble hut to try to compensate the family.
He got a big surprise to see that there was no humble hut, but instead was a house.
He thought that surely, after losing their source of livelihood, the family had to move.
He decided to knock on the door of that house to inquire about the whereabouts of the family who lived there.
When he knocked the door the same man that he had known in the hut opened it.
The man also recognized him and asked him to enter.
The disciple can't stand the curiosity and asked what happened,
how they managed to improve their situation.
The man replied:
"Curiously, the day you left, our cow had an accident and went over the cliff.
With no source of income, we had to see what to do
and we planted on our land and I searched for a job. And gradually things improved
and today we are much better.
Thank God that the cow is dead!"
WE ALL HAVE COWS WE CLING AND DON'T OPEN TO THE
POSSIBILITY OF BETTER CIRCUMSTANCES FOR OUR LIFE.
So what's your cow?