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‘Bitter-sweet’ strategy: Remember the story of how the wise master stopped his apprentice from complaining?

Tired of constant complaints, one morning, the wise master sent his apprentice some salt and asked him to mix it with a glass of water and drink it.

‘How is it?’ the master asked.

‘Bitter,’ spat the apprentice.

He then took him to a lake, poured the same amount of salt in it and asked him to taste the water.

‘It tastes fresh and sweet,’ the apprentice replied.

‘The pain of life is the salt. No more. No less. The amount of pain always remains the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put it in. So, when you are in pain, enlarge your sense of things.’ said the wise master. 

This week, let’s remind ourselves to stop being the glass, and become the lake

Good one! :)