Aug 16 2019

Peace In Storm

Once upon a time, there was a king who was very deeply puzzled by his duty to manage his country. Every day, every hour he lived his life in worry, in headache, no peacefulness in his leisure time.
Therefore, he thought out one idea that he published one notice to public asking his people to submit picture which can help him to get peace in his difficult duty.
Many of his subjects presented their drawings. Among few hundred pictures, he selected one picture to be the first prize.
In this picture, there were two big high rock mountains. Above the mountains, the sky was dark, storm and rain blowing fiercely around the mountains. The condition was so terrible as if it is at the end of the world. But, from far side, we could see that in the middle part of the rock mountains, there was a big hole, inside very peaceful with a quite atmosphere. Storm cannot get into the hole. Moreover, there were seven to eight baby swallows, playing happily together.
We do not know what the king learned from this picture. But it is a good picture for us to learn depending on what philosophy we have.