OPAL's Listening Ear: Tomato

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Tomato

..Theory of Tomato..

Received an email from a friend this morning and it was a theory of tomato..and the theory goes abt..

Once there was a man (Jason) and he met a monk. HE find it very interesting b'cos the monk requested him to hold on to a glass of tomato juices while talking to him. The monk shared with him about cause and effect, reincarnation and heart sutra...

Jason shared with the monk his trouble and sorrow too..and the monk instead asked him to hold on to two cans of tomato juice, one on each hand while sharing his problems. Not long later, Jason hands was tired and he put both his hands down and rest but the monk insisted him to hold it up and keep talking to him. Jason has no choice but to follow the monk instructions and was thinking why the monk was so strange and do not allow him to rest his hands when he is tired.

After 15minutes, his hands was really tired and finally he heard the monk telling him "Now you can put it down"..the monk smiled and said " I'm sure you don't like to hold on to the heavy cans of tomato juices while talking to me, but why you like to talk to me with your heavy burden and sorrows and live your life wif it? when your hands are tired while holding the cans of juices, you tried to put your hands down. why can't you apply it to your burden/ troubles?"

This is really an interesting experience... we can actually applied this theory to our daily lifes.. when our hands are tired, we will rest them down.. thus we can learn to put down our burden when we are mentally tired..

Life can be simple and we can live without stress..

posted by opal @ 7:06 PM

0 Comments: