Heaven or Hell?

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A young Buddhist monk once asked a wise priest to describe hell. the old priest replied that in hell, there is a giant cooking pot, a yard wide, filled with delicious noodles -- however, your only serving utensils are chopsticks which are also a yard in length.


''You can imagine what happens.'' the priest explained. ''Everybody is hungry and fighting to feel themselves with the yard-long chopsticks. They manage to pick noodles up, but the chop-sticks are too long to maneuver the noodles into their mouths. They become frantic and flounder at the noodles, each wanting to be the first to eat, and they even attack others for their food. In the end, with the noodles everywhere but in their mouths, they suffer a permanent, agonizing hunger.''

The young monk then asked for a description of heaven, to which the old priest replied: ''Heaven is actually quite the same. Only there, each person picks up the noodles and offers them to someone on the other side of the pot, saying ' Please be the first to enjoy this wonderful mea.' And the other accepts the food, saying 'Thank you, and please allow me to return you the kindness.' Trough their unselfish minds, they enjoy eternal bliss.''


{In our real life journey, everything can be heaven or hell, depending on whether we view them as win-lose situations , zero-sum games, or win-win opportunities of compounding synergy}


-copied from [A Passion For Success] , written by Kazuo Inamori