Allegory of the Cave

Once Upon a time a Senior monk & Junior monk were on a journey. As they moved forward on their journey they came across a raging river on who's bank there stood a Young lady. She was clearly concerned about "How she would get about to the other side of the river ?" The Junior monk straight passed her without giving a thought. The Senior monk, however picked up the Women and carried her across the river. He placed her down and both parted away on their journey. As the journey went on Senior monk could sense some concern on the junior monk mind. He asked him "What was Wrong ?" Junior Monk replied, "How can you carry her like that? You know we are prohibited from even touching women's ! It's against our way of Life" . The Senior monk replied "I left the women on the river's edge a long way back, why are you still carrying her ?" The Senior monk had broken the rules for benevolent reason. Once the purpose was full-filled he put ...

Everyone are aware of the creepy and jolting questions asked in some Multi-National Corporations (MNC) like Google, Microsoft etc. like How would you move Mount Fuji ? But very little people are aware of how Edison used to hire his assistants. That's an interesting story here ! Thomas Alva Edison used to take any intelligent candidate to dinner after initial round of questions. The Interview would continue over the dinner and when the food arrives Edison would take a bite of food. Then he would remark as 'I think this needs more salt ?' Then he would watch the candidate. If the candidate adds the salt without tasting it he would reject him and if the candidate decide to add the salt after tasting the food he would hire him. Edison knew that people who easily believed what others have said or made assumptions without first hand experience or knowledge could not look at a problem with different perspective and find a innovative solution. For Edison these people are narro...

An small creepy-crawling creatures which amazingly transforms itself into a vivid and beautiful colored butterfly is one of the nature's marvelous shows. Also it holds a valuable lesson which nature conveys. Once an man was gazing the nature sitting below a tree. It happened that he saw a cocoon was about to hatch. Out of curiosity he patiently scrutinized upon the cocoon. Slowly and steadily the cocoon was hatching and beautiful butterfly was struggling to break open free. He waited and observed that butterfly was struggling way to hard to break the cocoon. Out of empathy he intended to help the butterfly to break free by hatching the cocoon. Little did he realized that he was harming it. The butterfly after hatching was shivering and weak. It was trying to fly but couldn't. Actually the butterfly should hatch's its cocoon with the help of its wings so that fluid flows to its wings out of struggle and make it enough stronger to assist it to take the flight. It's Nat...

Michelangelo the great painter and sculptor from Renaissance period has been credited with several master-pieces. He has immensely enriched the artistic perspectives of human kind. Perhaps at the top of his master piece is David, an 18 foot tall statue sculpted in marble. Looking at it marvelously solace our eyes and gives an belief of what a man is capable to do with its artistic intelligence. Standing today in National Museum of Italy it attracts many people from around the world to leave them with the memories of vivid yet meticulously sculpted art. The story behind David : Very few people actually know the story behind David. David was a 18 foot marble slab lying for several years even before the Michelangelo was born. Some great artist were invited including Leonardo Da Vince to create something of the slab but everyone rejected it claiming it to be "flawed & worthless". Several years later Michelangelo got to work on that "flawed & worthless" ...

Today I was having a bad day. My To-Do list wasn't completed, I was indulged in my own thoughts. I was feeling very low (Dopamine Levels shunted)  & that's when my younger brother gave me a visit. This visit of him unexpectedly thought me one of the best lessons of life. I was sharing many feelings about how low I was feeling and how despaired I was. Instead of solacing me it happened he shared a story with me. It goes like this. Once upon a time there was a old man who was broken, lost his family and bankrupt. He was so broken as darkness was gulping him way in. Broken, disheartened he heard about a monk who solve others problem. In a hope with ending of his problems he gave monk a visit. He told the monk about his problems and shared his feeling to make him understand the pain he was going through. The monk gave him a simple solution. The monk asked him to travel a desert as far as he can. Upon listening to the monk he was ready for this arduous journey. Upon leaving the...

"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding" - Albert Einstein.   Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there. The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink! So he came back and told Buddha, The water in there is very muddy. I don't think it is fit to drink. After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he fo...

Have you heard the story of an elephant and his mahout ? Once upon a time their used to live a young elephant with a beautiful and craving trunk. He was a temple elephant  much revered and loved by the people of his town. Every day he was taken to stroll out for a walk in the evening in the busy bazar. The busy bazar filled with vendors bargaining with their customers, children crying for balloons and people quenching their thirst with sweet coconut water. The young elephant used to act as it pleased while walking through the lane. He used to grab the bunch of bananas hanging through the cart and gulp it before the vendor could stop him. Another time he used to pluck the flowers arranged and grab coconut drink from the customers quenching their thirst. The mahout used to stop him from doing this all. He even used to beat him with his stick but the elephant wouldn’t resist the bananas and coconuts. So mahout once got an idea to make him stop doing all this. Before going on the eve...

Have you heard the story of Zen Master and the dogs in the temple ? Once upon a time it happened that their was Zen master who was on his travelling to temples across various countries. While his travel to a temple in Himalayan Kingdom he walked through the temple gates and happened to see two ferocious black dogs not less than the hounds we fear at nights were chained to the iron grills of the temple entrance. They were straining the chains, their tongues were wagging, the saliva dripping from the mouth and barking so ferociously that one could hear their echoes in the temple.  It was just the kind of sight which could instill fear in anybody's mind !          " Don't worry master "  the local guide said.  "I know the dogs might look very scary but the chains are very tight and their is no way they could break free !".  Then the master continued to walk into the long courtyard towards the main temple. Even as he was trying...