Chapter 13 homeless

I met him at the crossroads, a man wearing nothing but a cloak and a cane, his face covered with a veil of pain.We greeted and said hello to each other, and I said to him: Come to my house as a guest? "Here he is. My wife and my children met us at the gate and he smiled at them.They welcome him. We sat down to dinner together; we enjoyed the company of this man, for there was a serenity and a mystery about him. clothes One day, beauty and ugliness met on the seashore, and they encouraged each other: "Let's go swimming in the sea. So they took off their clothes and swam in the sea.After a while Ugliness returned to the shore, put on the raiment of Beauty, and went his way.

Then Beauty also came out of the sea, and not finding her own raiment, and being too timid to be naked, she clothed herself with the raiment of Ugliness.Beauty also went her own way. Therefore, to this day, men and women in the world mistake ugliness for beauty and beauty for ugliness. However, there are those who have seen Beauty for what she is, and they recognize her even though she wears the wrong clothes.Some people recognize the true face of ugliness, and clothes cannot deceive their eyes. eagle and lark An eagle and a lark met on a rock in a high mountain.The lark said: "Good morning, sir." The eagle looked at the lark contemptuously, and said weakly: "Good morning."

"I wish you all the best, sir," said Lark. "Yes," said the eagle, "everything is going well for us. But you know, we are the king of all birds, and you should not greet us before we have spoken." "I thought we belonged to the same family," said Skylark. The Eagle looked at the Lark with contempt, and said, "Who ever said you and I belonged to the same family?" Then the Lark replied, "But, I want to remind you of this: I can fly just like you High, I can still sing, and amuse the rest of the earth. You give neither pleasure nor pleasure."

This offended the Eagle, and he said, "Pleasure and fun! What nonsense are you lil' little thing! You are no bigger than one of my feet. One peck from my mouth will kill you." ." So the skylark flew up, fluttered on the eagle's back, and picked up the eagle's feathers.This angered the eagle greatly, and he flew high, trying to get rid of the little bird.However, he failed and couldn't get rid of it.He finally landed on the rock of the high mountain again, and the little thing was still on his back, and he became more and more angry, cursing the unlucky hour. At this moment, a little turtle passed by, laughing loudly at the scene in front of her. She laughed so hard that she almost turned over and fell down.

The eagle looked down on the little tortoise, and said, "You slow-moving thing, you forever crawling on the ground, what are you laughing at?" Then the tortoise replied, "Well, I saw you turned into a horse, let me see you." A little bird is riding on you, but that bird is a better bird than you." Then the Eagle said to the Tortoise, "Mind your own business, and go about your own business. This is a domestic matter between me and my brother Skylark." love song Once upon a time, a poet wrote a love poem, which was beautiful.He copied several copies and distributed them to his friends and acquaintances, both men and women, even to a young woman on the other side of the hill whom he had only met once.

A day or two later a letter was sent to him by the young woman.She wrote in the letter: "Let me assure you from the bottom of my heart that I am deeply moved by the love poems you wrote to me. Come now, visit my father and my mother, and we can serve An engagement is arranged." The poet wrote back, in which he said to her: "My friend, this is but a love poem from the poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman." She wrote to him again, saying: "You hypocrite and liar of words! I shall hate all poets for your sake from this day until the day I die." tears and laughter

At dusk, a dog met a crocodile on the banks of the Nile, and they stopped to greet each other. Xugou said, "Sir, how is your life?" The crocodile replied, "My life is very bad. Sometimes I cry because of pain and trouble, and when I cry, people always say: It's nothing but crocodile tears. It hurts me so much, I can't say it." Then Yin the dog said: "You talk about your pain and your troubles, but you also think about it for me, think about it for a while. I gaze at the beauty of the world, its wonders and wonders, purely out of To the joy of my heart, I smiled, even as bright as day.

But the residents in the jungle said: It's just the dog's laugh. " at the market A very beautiful girl came from the country to go to the market.Her face was the color of lilies and roses.Her hair is like the sunset, and the dawn smiles on her vermilion lips. It was not long before the beautiful stranger appeared before the young man's eyes that they all came after her and surrounded her.This one wants to dance with her, and the other wants to cut a piece of cake for her.And they all wanted to kiss her on the cheek.Because after all, isn’t this a fair?But the girl was surprised and frightened, thinking that these young men were not good people.She berates them, she even punches one or two in the face.Then she ran away from them.

As she walked home that evening, she said to herself, "It's disgusting. How rude and ill-bred these men are. It's unbearable." A year passed, during which the very fair girl thought of the fair and the young men.So she came to the market again, with lilies and roses on her face, with sunset light in her hair, and a smile of dawn on her lips. Now, however, the young men all turned away when they saw her.All day she was alone, and no one came to pursue her. Walking home in the evening, she cried inwardly, "It's disgusting. How rude and ill-bred these young people are. It's intolerable."

two princesses In the city of Savakis lived a prince who was loved by all men, women, and children, and even the animals of the fields came to pay homage to him. But the people say: "His wife, the princess, doesn't love him; no, she even hates him. One day, a princess from a neighboring city came to visit the princess of Savakis.They sat talking and talked about their husbands. The princess in the city of Savakis said excitedly: "I really envy you and your husband, the prince, who live happily together, even though you have been married for many years. I hate my husband. He does not belong to me alone. Man, I'm really the unluckiest woman in the world."

The princess who wanted to visit stared at the other party and said: "My friend Li, the truth is that you love your husband. Yes, you still have a passion for him that has not been exhausted, but that is the heart of a woman." My life is like spring in a garden. But pity me, and pity my husband, too, for we bear each other in silent patience. And you and the others think this is happiness." Lightning On a day of heavy thunderstorms, a Christian bishop was in his cathedral.A non-Christian woman came and stood before him and asked, "I am not a Christian. Can I be saved from the fires of hell?" The Bishop looked at the woman and replied, "No , only those who have been baptized with holy water and the Holy Spirit can be saved." Just as the bishop was speaking, a thunderbolt thundered down from the sky and struck the cathedral, which was ablaze everywhere. People from the city came running, and they rescued the woman, while the bishop was consumed by the fire and reduced to ashes. the hermit and the beast Once upon a time there lived a hermit among the green mountains.He was a man of pure spirit and a good conscience.All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air came to him in pairs, and he spoke to them.They listened to him with complete obedience, and they crowded round, and would not leave till it was dark; when it was dark he sent them away, entrusting them with his blessing to the wind and the forest. One night, when the hermit was talking about love, a leopard raised its head and said to the hermit, "You tell us about love, sir, please tell us, where is your mate?" The hermit said, "I have no mate." ." Then there was an astonishing uproar among the birds and beasts, and they began to chirp and talk among themselves: "How can he tell us about love and marriage when he doesn't know anything about it himself?" They quietly Contemptuously, he walked away, leaving the hermit alone. That night the hermit fell face down on the mat, and then began to beat his breast and cry bitterly. prophet and child One day the Prophet Shariah met a child in a garden.The child ran up to the Prophet and said, "Good morning, sir." Then the Prophet said, "Good morning, sir." After a while, he added, "I see you are alone." The child laughed and said happily, "It took me a long time to get rid of my nurse. She thought I was behind those fences; but can't you see me in this garden?" The child stared Looking at the face of the prophet, he said again, saying that he was also alone.How do you deal with your nanny? "The Prophet replied: "Ah, that is another matter.To be honest, I can't get away from my nanny all the time.But now, when I enter the garden, the nurse is looking for me behind the hedge. " The child clapped his hands and said loudly: "Then, you are a lost person like me! Wouldn't it be nice to be lost?" Then, the child asked again, "Who are you?" Call the Prophet Shariah.You also tell me, who are you? ""I am only myself," said the child, and the hungry nurse was looking for me, and she did not know where I was." So the Prophet stared at the sky and said: I also hide from my nanny for a while, but she will find me. " "I know my nanny will find me too," said the child. At that moment, a woman could be heard calling the child's name. "Look," said the boy, "I told you the nurse will find me." At the same time, another voice was heard calling, "Sariah, where are you?" Then the Prophet said, "Look, my children, they have found me too." Sharia looked up at the sky and replied, "Here I am." pearl One clam said to another nearby, "I have a great pain in my body. It's heavy, round, and I'm in trouble. " The other oyster replied with pride and complacency: "Praise the heavens and the sea. There is no pain in my body. I am healthy inside and out." At this time a crab passed by and heard the conversation between the two clams. It said to the clam that was healthy inside and out: "Yes, you are healthy, but your neighbor is suffering. It is a pearl of extraordinary beauty." body and soul A man and a woman are sitting by a window that opens onto the spring.They are close together.The woman said, "I love you. You were born beautiful, you came from a wealthy family, and you were always well-dressed." The man said, "I love you. You are a beautiful thought, a thing too detached to grasp, a song in my dreams." But the woman turned away angrily and said, "Sir, please leave me now. I am not a thought, I am not a thing passing through your dreams. I am a woman. I would like you to expect me to be A wife, a mother of future children." So they broke up. The man said in his heart, "Look at this other dream that has turned into a mist now." The woman said: "Oh, he actually sees me as a mist and a dream, what kind of man is this?" King Sodick The people of the kingdom surrounded their king's palace and cried out against him.The king, holding the crown in one hand and clinging to the king's festival in the other, walked down the steps of the palace.The presence of the king silenced the crowd; the king stood before the crowd.Said: "My friends, you are no longer my people, and now I give you my crown and three knots. I want to be one of you. I am but a common people, and as a common people, I am willing to share with you You work together to make our fortunes better. There is no need for a king. So let us go out into the fields and vineyards and work hand in hand. Just have to tell me where I should go to one of the vineyards. You are all kings now." The people were astonished, and remained silent, for, having thought the king the source of their discontent, now the king handed them the crown and the royal festival, and became part of the common people. So the people went their own way, and the king went to work in the field with one person. The king is gone, and the Sodick Kingdom has not improved much, and the land is still shrouded in a mist of dissatisfaction.The common people cried out in the marketplace that they would be governed, that they would have a king to rule them.The old and the young seemed to say with one voice: "We must have a king." So the people went to look for the king, and when they found him working in the fields, the people took him to the throne, and gave him back his crown and ceremonies.They said, "Govern us with power and justice." The king said: "I will rule you with power, and may the gods of heaven and earth help me so that I can also rule with justice." But the common people, men and women, came before the king and complained to him of a baron who had mistreated them in every possible way, and that they were nothing but serfs in the baron's mind.The king sent the baron at once, and said to him, "On God's scales, one man's life is equal to another man's life. For you do not know how to weigh those who are in your field and the grapes." The lives of those who work in the garden are worth, so you are exiled, and you must leave this kingdom forever." The next day another party of the people came before the king, and accused a countess on the other side of the hill of cruelty and poverty.The king immediately brought the countess before the court, and also sentenced her to exile. The king said: "Those who cultivate our fields and tend our vineyards are nobler than us. We eat their bread and drink It is the wine they press. Because you do not understand this, you must leave this country and go to a place far from this kingdom." Then came the common people, men and women, who accused the bishop of sending them to carry stones, and hew stones for the cathedral, for nothing; knowing that though the bishop's treasury was full of gold and silver, the people's stomachs were empty. Yes, very hungry. The king summoned the bishop, and when the bishop came, the king said to him: "The cross hanging on your chest should mean giving life to life, but you have taken life from life, and you can't take it out. Therefore, you must leave this kingdom." , never come back." Thus, every day for a whole month, men and women of the common people came before the king, complaining of their unbearable sufferings; every day for a whole month, some oppressor was driven out of his land. The people of Sodick were astonished, and their hearts were filled with joy. One day the old and the young came, surrounded the king's tower, and called out to the king.The king held the crown in one hand and held on to the king's festival in the other, and walked down the tower. The king spoke to the people and asked, "What are you going to do this time? Behold, I have given you back what you asked me to be in charge of." But the people said loudly: "No, no, you are our wise king. You have cleared our land of vipers and wolves. We have come to express our gratitude and sing praises to you. The solemn crown belongs to you." Yes, the glorious King's Day is yours." Then the king said, "I am not a king, no. You are yourselves kings. When you thought I was weak and incapable of governing, you yourselves were weak and incapable of governing. Now the fields are plowed with plenty of crops because all of you are determined to do so." at this point. I am but a thought in the minds of all you common people; only if you act can I exist.There is no one who rules the people at all.There are only ordinary people who were ruled in the past, and now they rule and manage themselves. " The king re-entered his tower with the crown and the king's festival, and the old and young people went their separate ways, and they were all content. In the Kingdom of Sodick, the common people all thought they were a king, holding the crown in one hand and holding on to the king's festival in the other. on the beach One man said to another: "Long ago, at high tide, I wrote a line in the sand with the tip of my stick, and people still stop to read it, and they don't pay attention." Let it be wiped away." Another person said: "I also wrote a line on the beach, but it was washed away by the waves of the vast sea at low tide. But please tell me, what did you write?" One replied: "I wrote: I am what he is. But what did you write?" The second said: "I wrote: I am but a drop in this great ocean" three gifts Once upon a time, there lived a magnanimous prince in the city of Besharé, and all the people in the city loved and respected the prince. However, there was a very poor man who held a grudge against the prince and kept attacking him with his bad tongue. The prince knew this, but he endured it patiently. But at last the Prince thought of the poor man; and one cold night in winter, the Prince's servant came to the poor man's door, bringing with him a sack of flour, a little sack of soap, and a large lump of sugar. The servant said: "The prince gave you these gifts as a souvenir." The poor man was very proud, for he regarded these gifts as a tribute to him from the prince.He proudly went to the bishop, told the bishop about the gift from the prince, and said, "Can't you see that the prince wants to please me?" But the bishop said, "Oh, how clever the prince is, and you are How ignorant of him. He speaks in symbolic terms. Flour fills your empty stomach, soap washes your dirty skin, sugar sweetens your pungent tongue. " From that day on the poor man was ashamed of himself.He hated the prince more than ever, and he even hated the bishop who explained to him the prince's true meaning. But he has been silent ever since. peace and war The three dogs talked while basking in the sun. The first dog said dreamily: "It is indeed wonderful to live in today's dog country. Think of the comfort and ease with which we travel in the sea, on the land, and even in the air. Think of all the things that are done for the happiness of the dogs." And the inventions that come out, there are even things for our eyes, ears, and noses." So the second dog interjected, "We care more about art than we did. We bark at the moon more rhythmically than our ancestors did. When we look at ourselves in the water, we see our features better than dogs of old. My son's face is clearer." Then the third dog said: "However, what interests me most, and which pleases my soul, is the peaceful mutual understanding that exists among the dog nations." At this moment, they opened their eyes and saw, ah, the dog catcher was approaching. The three dogs sprang up, and ran away into the street; and as they ran, the third dog said, "For God's sake, run for your life."Civilization is after us miles. " dancer Once upon a time, a dancer came to the court of the prince of Belkasha with her musician.She was admitted to the palace, and she danced in the prince's presence to the music of the lyre, the flute, and the zither. She danced the dance of fire, the dance of sword and spear; she danced the dance of stars and space; and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind. After dancing, she stood before the prince's throne and bowed to him.The Prince bid her stand nearer, and said to her, "Beautiful woman, graceful and pleasing daughter, where did you learn to dance? How did you master all the forces of nature with your rhythm and your rhythm?" "The dancer bowed again to the prince and replied: "My great and benevolent prince, I don't know how to answer your inquiry, I only know this: the soul of a philosopher lives in his head, and the soul of a poet Deep in his heart, the singer's soul echoes in his throat, but the dancer's soul flows through her." two guardian angels One evening, the two angels met at the gate of the city, saluted each other, and began to talk. An angel said, "What are you busy with these days, what work has been given to you." The other ambassador answered: "I have been assigned the guardianship of a fallen man who lives in the valley below, a sinner of many crimes, and the most vile. I assure you that this is a great task, and I have worked very hard. " "It was an easy job," said the first angel. "I have often met sinners, and I have been their guardian several times. But now I am assigned the guardianship of a good saint who lives in the cottage yonder.I can assure you that it is a very difficult job, and a delicate one at that. " The second angel said, "This is nothing but conjecture. How can it be that a saint is harder to guard than a sinner?" The first angel replied, "It is impertinent to say that I am speculating! I am only telling the truth. It seems to me that you are speculating!" So the two angels quarreled and fought, first with words, then with fists and wings. While they were fighting, an archangel walked by.He stopped them from fighting and said, "Why do you fight? What is the reason? Do you know that the guardian angels fight at the gate of the city is the worst thing? Tell me, what is the reason for your disharmony?" So the two angels immediately In speaking, everyone claimed that the work assigned to him was harder and that he should therefore be more appreciated. The archangel shook his head, thinking carefully. Then he said: "My friends, I cannot say now which of you has a greater claim to glory and reward. But since I have been empowered, and since each of you insists that the other's task is easier than your own, then, for peace's sake, and good guardianship, I assign you both to each other's duties.Now you go, I wish you a happy job. " Two angels were ordered to go.But each angel looked back at the Archangel with greater anger.Every angel was thinking, "This archangel! They are making life harder for us angels every day!" But the archangel stood there, thinking again to himself.He said to himself, "We must indeed be vigilant, and we must have guardian angels who watch over us." statue Once upon a time, there was a man who lived among the mountains. There was a statue in his house, which was made by an ancient master.He paid no attention to the statue lying face down on the front door of his house. A learned man came out of the city, passed by his house, saw the statue, and asked the owner of the statue if he would sell it. The owner laughed and said, "Who wants to buy this heavy and dirty stone?" The city man said, "I'd like to pay a silver dollar for it." The people in the mountain were greatly surprised and overjoyed. The statue was placed on the back of an elephant and transported to the city.A few months later, the mountain man went to the city. When he was walking on the street, he saw a large group of people gathered at the door of a shop, and someone shouted loudly: "Please come in and enjoy the most beautiful and magical scenery in the world." For two silver dollars, you can see this most marvelous piece of art by the Maestro." So the mountain man paid two silver dollars, stepped into the shop, and saw the statue which he himself had sold for one silver dollar. exchange Once upon a time, a poor poet met a rich fool at a crossroads, and they talked to each other.Everything they said was just to vent their dissatisfaction. At this time, the angel who was in charge of the road passed the crossroads, and he put his hands on the shoulders of the two men. You see, a miracle happened: the two men now exchanged what they had. So they broke up.However, it is strange to say that the poet looks left and right, but sees only moving dry sand in his hands; the fool closes his eyes, but feels that he only has moving clouds in his heart. love and hate A woman said to a man, "I love you." The man replied, "What is worthy of your love is in my heart." So the woman asked, "Don't you love me?" The man just stared at her and said nothing. Then the woman cried out: I hate you. "The man replied: "The thing worthy of your hatred is also in my heart. " Dream A man had a dream, and when he awoke he went to his seer and asked him to explain what the dream foretells. The prophet said to the man, "Ask me with the dream you saw when you were awake, and I will tell you the meaning of the dream. However, the dream you have when you are asleep is neither part of my intellect. range, but not within the range of your imagination." madman In the garden of the lunatic asylum, I met a young man with a pale, beautiful face, but full of surprise. I sat next to him on the bench, and I said, "Why are you here?" He looked at me in surprise, and said, "That's an impolite question, but I'll answer you anyway. My father wants I became just like him, and my uncle expected me to be like him. My mother wanted me to be like her famous father. My sister thought her seafaring husband was a perfect example, and wanted me to follow his example. ...my brother thinks I should be an athlete like him. My teachers, too, were determined that I should be a doctor of philosophy, a master of music, and a logician. Each one wanted me to be the reflection of his countenance in the mirror. "That's why I've come to this place. I think the madhouse is more sane here. At least, I can be myself." Then the young man suddenly turned to me and asked: "But tell me, are you also driven to the madhouse by education and kind advice?" I replied: "No, I am a visitor. " The young man said, "Oh, there are people who live in the madhouse on the other side of the wall, and you are one of them." group of frogs A Frog said to his mate one high summer day, "I am afraid that our night song will disturb the people who live in the houses on the shore." His mate replied, "Well, don't their daytime conversations disturb our silence?" The male said, "Let us not forget that perhaps we sing too much at night." His mate said, "Let's not forget, too, that they gossip and shout too much during the day." The male said, "What do you think of the Bullfrog waking up the whole neighborhood with his God forbid roar?" His mate replied, "Well, politicians, priests and scientists have all come to the shore and filled the air with What do you say about loud and rhythmless voices?" So the male frog suggested, "Oh, let us be wiser than humans. Let us keep silent in the night and keep our songs in our hearts , though the moon needs our rhythm, and the stars need our rhythm, all appeal. At least, let us be silent for a night or two, or even three." His partner said: "Very well, I agree. We'll see what happens to your generosity." That night the frogs were silent, and the second night they were silent, and the third night they were silent again. Strange to say, a talkative woman who lived in a house by the lake said loudly to her husband when she came downstairs to have breakfast on the third day: "I haven't slept through the past three nights. I heard frogs in my ears." I didn't sleep soundly until then. But something must have happened. The frog hasn't sung for three nights; I'm so sleepless that I feel like I'm going crazy." When the male frog heard this, he turned to his mate, blinked his eyes, and said, "We're almost going crazy for being silent, aren't we?" His mate replied, "Yes, night." The stillness of the house weighed heavily upon us. I see now that we need not stop singing for the comfort of these people, they must have loud voices to fill their emptiness." That night, the moon did not call for the rhythm of the frog in vain, and the stars did not call for the rhythm of the frog in vain. law and legislation Hundreds of years ago, there was a great king, he was a wise man.He will make laws for his people. He invited a thousand sages from a thousand different tribes to his capital to make laws. All this was done. However, a thousand laws written on parchment were presented to the king, and when the king read it, he wept bitterly in his heart, because he never expected that in his kingdom, there would be A thousand deeds of crime. So the king summoned his scribes, and dictated the law himself with a smile on his lips.The king made only seven laws. But the thousand wise men left the king angrily, and returned to their respective tribes with their own laws.Each tribe enforces the laws made by its own sages. Therefore, they have a thousand laws to this day. It is a great country, but it has a thousand prisons, full of men and women who have broken a thousand laws. This is indeed a great country, but its people are descended from a thousand legislators and only one wise king. yesterday, today and tomorrow I said to my friend, "You saw her leaning on that man's arm. But it was only yesterday that she leaned on my arm. My friend said, "And tomorrow she will lean on my arm. My arm is on. " I said, "Look at her sitting next to him. But she was sitting next to me only yesterday." My friend said, "And tomorrow she will be sitting next to me." I said, "See, she drank from his cup, and yesterday she drank from my wood." My friend said, "Tomorrow she will drink from my glass." I went on: "Look at her looking at him with tender and submissive eyes with affection, as she looked at me yesterday." My friend said: "Tomorrow the person she is looking at will be me." I said, "Can you hear her whispering love songs to his ear? But it was only yesterday that she whispered these love songs to mine." My friend said: "Tomorrow she will be humming these songs in my ear." I said, "Look, she's hugging him. But she hugged me only yesterday." My friend said, "She will hug me tomorrow." So I said, "What a strange woman." But my friend replied: "As life, she belongs to all; as death, she conquers all; as eternal, she encompasses all." philosopher and shoemaker A philosopher, wearing a pair of worn shoes, came to a shoemaker's shop.The philosopher said to the shoemaker, "Please mend my shoes." The shoemaker said: "I'm mending another person's shoes right now; I can mend yours after another person's shoes are mended. But leave your shoes here, and I'll wear someone else's shoes today. Come and get your own shoes tomorrow." The philosopher got angry and said: "It's not my own shoes, I don't wear them." The shoemaker said: "You can't put your feet in other people's shoes. So, are you really a philosopher? There is a shoemaker on this street who knows more philosophy than me. Go ask him to mend shoes." " bridge builder A bridge was built over the Achi River, which ran through the city of Antioch to the sea, to facilitate communication between the two parts of the city. The bridge was built of great stones which had been brought from the mountains on the backs of mules from Antioch. When the stone bridge was completed, a line of words was carved in Greek and Aramaic on a stone pillar: "This bridge was built by King Antioch II". All the common people walk to the other side of the beautiful Aqi River through this beautiful stone bridge. One night, a young man who was considered a bit silly climbed down to the place where the inscription was carved on the stone pillar, wiped off the inscription with charcoal, and wrote on it: "The stone on this bridge is Mules brought it from the mountains. When you go up and down the bridge, you are riding on the backs of the builders, the mules of Antioch." When the common people read the words written by the young man, some laughed, and some were surprised.Some said, "Ah, see, we know who did it. Isn't he kind of stupid?" But one mule laughed and said to the other mule, "Can you Remember that we did carry these stones, but until today it is said that the stone bridge was built by King Antioch." Zade Field A traveler met a man who lived in a nearby village on the main road of Zad. The traveler pointed to a large field and asked the man, "Is this the ancient battlefield where King Ahram defeated the enemy?" The man answered, "There has never been a battle here. The great city of Zad once stood in this field, and that city has burned to ashes. But it is a fertile field now, isn't it?" The Traveler and that person parted. After walking less than half a mile, the traveler met another person. The traveler pointed to the field and asked: "This is where the great city of Zad once stood?" The man replied: "There has never been a place like this A city. But there was a monastery here, and the people of the South destroyed it." Soon, on this great Zade road, the traveler met a third man, who once more pointed out a large field and asked, "Is this really where a great monastery once stood?" But the man "There never was a monastery in this part of the country," replied he, "but our fathers and our ancestors have told us that a great meteor once fell in this field." The traveler was surprised and continued to walk forward.He met a very old man, and he saluted and asked: "Your Excellency, I met three people who lived in the vicinity on this road. I asked everyone about this field, and everyone denied it." Everyone tells a new legend that no one else has told." Then the old man raised his head and replied: "My friend, each of these people tells you that it is true, but hardly any of us can put the divergent arguments together and draw a correct conclusion from them." of." gold belt Once upon a time, two men they met on the highway were walking together towards the city of Salamis in Corones.At noon, they came to a wide river, but there was no bridge to cross it.They must swim; or else they will find another way, which they do not know. They said to each other, "Let's swim across. After all, the river is not too wide." So they threw themselves into the water and swam. One of the two was familiar with rivers and lakes all his life, and he also knew the nature of water. When he got into the big river, he fell into a daze and was swept away by the turbulent current; On the other side of the shore.Seeing that his companion was still struggling in the river, he jumped back into the water and brought that man safely to the bank as well. Then the man who had been swept away by the rapids asked, "But you told me you couldn't swim. How did you swim across the river so boldly?" The second replied, "My friend, Have you ever seen this girdle I wear around me? It's full of gold coins I've worked a full year to earn for my wife and children. Push me across the river to My wife and children go by the weight of the gold coins in that girdle. When I swim, my wife and children are on my shoulders." So the two men continued to walk together and walked towards Salamis. red earth A tree said to a person: "My roots go deep into the red earth, and I will give you my fruit." The man said to the tree, "How similar we are. My roots are also deep in the red earth. The red earth empowers you to give me fruit, and the red earth teaches me to accept your gift with gratitude." The full moon rose over the town in such splendor that all the dogs in the town began to bark. Only one dog neither barked nor barked, and said to the others in a solemn voice, "Don't make the silence wake up from sleep, and don't call the moon to the earth with your barking." Then all the dogs fell silent and stopped barking.But the dog who told everyone not to bark barked all night because of the silence. reclusive prophet Once upon a time there was a hermit prophet who went to the big cities three times a month and preached alms and sharing in the marketplace.He was famous for his eloquent speech. One evening, three people came to his hermitage, and he greeted them with salutes.They said: "You have preached about giving and sharing, and you have tried to teach the rich to give to the poor; we are convinced that your fame has brought you riches. Give us your wealth now, for we are very poor. " The hermit answered: "My friends, I have nothing but this bed, this mat, and this bottle of water. Take them, if you want. I have neither gold nor silver. " Then they all despised the hermit with contempt, and turned their faces away; and the last one stood a moment at the door, and said, "O, you liar! You deceitful fellow! You teach and preach, You don't do it yourself." old wine Once upon a time, there was a rich man who was not without reason proud of his wine cellar and his fine wine.Among them is a bottle of old wine, which he treasured for a grand event, but only he himself knows what kind of grand event it is. When the magistrate came to visit him, he thought to himself: "It's just a magistrate, there is no need to open this bottle of wine for him." The bishop of the diocese came to visit him, but he said to himself: "No, I will not open the bottle for him. He will not understand the value of this wine, and he will not be able to smell the wine." The prince of the kingdom came and dined with him.But he thought, "He is only a little prince, and he is not worthy of such a noble wine." Even when his own nephew was married, he said to himself, "No, the bottle will not be given to the guests." Years passed, and at last the old man was dead and buried, like a seed and an acorn. On the day of his burial, the bottle of old wine and other wines were taken out and shared among farmers and neighbors. No one can tell that this bottle of wine is old wine. To them, whatever is poured into a wineglass is nothing but wine. two poems Many centuries ago, two poets met each other on the road to Athens, and they were very happy to see each other. One poet asked another: "What have you been writing lately? How has your lyre sounded?" The other replied proudly: "I have just written my greatest poem, perhaps in Greek The greatest psalm ever written. It is a psalm in prayer to the supreme god Zeus." Then he took a roll of parchment from under his cloak, and said: "Well, look, I've brought my poems, and I'm glad to read them to you. Come, let us sit in the shade of that cypress tree." ." The poet read his poems aloud.That is a long poem. Another poet said kindly, "This is a great poem. It will be passed on from generation to generation, and you will be famous for it." The first poet asked calmly: "So what have you been writing these days?" The other replied: "I have written very little. I only wrote eight lines in memory of a man playing in the garden. of my child." Then he recited the eight lines. The first poet said, "Not bad, not bad." So they broke up. Now more than two thousand years have passed, the eight-line poem is still chanted in everyone's mouth, and everyone loves and cherishes it. That long poem, though it is true, has been handed down from generation to generation in libraries, in the libraries of scholars; though it is remembered, it is neither loved nor read. Mrs Ruth Once upon a time, three people looked at a white house, which stood alone on a green hill.The first said, "That's Mrs. Ruth's house, she's an old ugly witch." The second said, "You are wrong. Mrs. Ruth is a beautiful woman, and she lives there sunk in dreams." A third said, "You are both wrong. Mrs. Ruth is a great landowner of this great land, and she sucks the blood of her serfs." They walked and talked about Mrs. Ruth. When they came to the crossroads, they met an old man. Someone asked the old man, "Can you tell us about Mrs. Ruth who lives in the white house on the hill?" The old man raised his head and smiled at them. , and then said: "I am ninety years old now; I was only a child when I remembered Mrs. Ruth. But Mrs. Ruth died long ago eighty years ago, and now the white house is empty and closed." Owls sometimes howled there, and people said that the house was haunted. mouse and cat One evening, a poet met a farmer.The poet is withdrawn, the peasant is shy, and yet they talk. The farmer said: "Let me tell you a little story I heard recently. A mouse was caught in a mousetrap; while the mouse was happily eating cheese placed in the cage, there was a cat in the cage. Beside. The mouse trembled for a moment, but he knew that he was safe in the cage. "Then the Cat said: "My friend, you are eating your last meal." Yes, the Mouse replied: "I have only one life, so I will die only once."But what about you?It is said that you have nine lives. Doesn't that mean you have to die nine times? "The farmer looked at the poet and said, "Isn't this a novel story? "The poet didn't answer the farmer, he walked away, but he was thinking in his heart: "It is true, we have nine lives, indeed nine lives.So we die nine times, and we die nine times.Perhaps it would have been better to have but one life, caught in a cage--living the life of a peasant, with a sliver of cheese for his last meal.Yet are we not relatives of the lions of deserts and forests? " curse Once, an old man at sea said to me: "Thirty years ago, a sailor ran away with my daughter. I cursed them both from the bottom of my heart, because the only thing I love most in the world is my daughter. "Soon afterward the young sailor and his ship sank in the bottom of the sea, and I lost my dear daughter who was with him. "So now you see in me a murderer of this young man and a maiden. It was my curse that destroyed them both. Now I seek God's forgiveness on my way to my grave." The old man said this.Yet there was a boastful tone in his speech, as if he still prided himself on his cursed powers. Pomegranate Once upon a time there was a man who planted many pomegranate trees in his orchard.For several autumns he served pomegranates on silver trays outside his house with a sign in his own handwriting: "Please take one. You're welcome." However, none of the people passing by took the fruit. The man thought about it, so in the autumn of a certain year, he stopped storing the pomegranates in the silver plate outside the house, but hung a signboard in large characters: "Here is the best pomegranate in the world, but the price is very high." More expensive than any other pomegranate." Look, the men and women of the neighborhood are running to buy pomegranates. One God and Many Kinds of Kira In the city of Fez, a sophist stood on the steps of the temple and preached polytheism.The people said in their hearts, "We know all this. Don't the gods live with us, and follow us wherever we go?" Not long after, another man stood in the marketplace and said to the people: " There are no gods." Many of those who listened to him rejoiced at his message because they feared the gods. Another day came another eloquent and eloquent man, and he said, "There is only one God." Then the common people were terrified, because in their hearts they feared the judgment of God more than the judgment of all gods. In the same season came another, who said to the common people: "There are three gods, and three of them dwell in the wind, and they have a great and benevolent mother, who is also their companion and sister. " Then everyone was relieved, for they whispered, "The Trinity must disagree about our defects, and their good mother must plead for us poor weak-willed ones." To this day, there are still some people in the city of Chirafis who are still arguing and arguing with each other about polytheism or atheism, monotheism or tritheism, and their benevolent mother. deaf woman Once upon a time, there was a rich man who had a young wife who was stone-deaf and could not hear at all. One morning, while they were eating breakfast, she said to her husband: "Yesterday I went to the market, where there were silk dresses from Damascus, turbans from India, necklaces from Persia, and hand silver from Yemen." It seems that the caravan has just brought these things to our city. But look at me, I am dressed in rags, and I am still a rich man's wife. I want to buy some of those beautiful clothes ." The husband, still busy with his morning coffee, said, "My dear, there's no reason why you shouldn't go out and buy everything you love." Then the deaf wife said, "No! You always say no, no. Must I appear in rags before our friends, and disgrace your wealth and my kin?" The husband said: " I didn't say no, you might as well go to the market at your leisure, and buy the most beautiful clothes and jewels that come to our town." However, the wife guessed wrongly what her husband said, and she said: "Among all the rich men, you are the most stingy. You always refuse to buy me all the beautiful and lovely things; and other women who are about my age , all dressed up for a walk in the garden in the city." she began to cry.As her tears fell to her breast, she cried out again: "When I want to buy a dress or a gemstone, you always say no, no!" The husband was moved, he stood up, and walked away from the house. He took a handful of gold pieces from his purse and put them before her, and said in a kindly voice, "Go to the market, my dear, and buy all you want." From that day on, whenever the deaf young wife wanted to buy something, she always appeared in front of her husband with tears in her eyes. The husband always silently took out a handful of gold coins and put them in her pocket. But by chance, the young woman fell in love with a young man who had a habit of traveling long distances.Whenever he travels, she often sits by the window and weeps. When her husband saw her weeping like this, he often said in his heart: "There must be a new southern team on the street, and there must be silk clothes and rare treasures on the street." He often took out a handful of gold coins and placed them in front of her. explore a thousand years Once upon a time, two philosophers met on a hillside in Lebanon. One asked the other, "Where are you going?" The other replied, "I am looking for the fountain of youth, which I know comes from these mountains and I read that it bloomed toward the sun. And you, what are you looking for?" replied this one, "I am looking for the secret of death." Two philosophers, each believing that the other knew little of his great science, argued, each accusing the other of spiritual blindness. While the two philosophers were arguing loudly, a stranger passed by.In his own village everyone thought he was a fool.He heard the philosophers arguing vigorously, so he stood for a while and listened to them. Then he approached the philosophers and said: "Gentlemen, it seems that you two belong to the same school of philosophy, and you are talking about the same thing, but you are talking about it in different languages. One of you One seeks the fountain of youth, the other seeks the secret of death. In fact, the two are but one thing; and exist in both of you as one thing." Then the stranger, turning away, said, "Good-bye, philosophers." He went away with a patient laugh. The two philosophers looked at each other in silence for a moment, and then laughed too.One of them said, "Okay, now shall we go and explore together?" scepter The king said to his wife, "Madame, you are not what you call a queen. You are too vulgar and rough to be my companion." The wife said: "Sir, you think you are a king, but in fact you are just a poor mouthpiece." These words offended the king, and he took the scepter in his hand and struck the queen on the forehead with the golden scepter. At this moment the Majesty of the Royal Chamber came into the palace, and he said: "Ah, ah, Your Majesty! This scepter is made by the greatest artist in the world. Alas, one day, the king and queen will be forgotten, but this scepter will be forgotten." Preserve it and pass it on from generation to generation as a work of art. Your Majesty, now that you have stained the scepter with the blood of Her Majesty's forehead, it will be valued and commemorated even more in the future." way In the mountains lived a woman and her son. He was her firstborn son and also her only son. The child died of a fever while the doctor stood helpless. The mother was so distressed that she cried out to the doctor and begged him, "Tell me, tell me, what is it that keeps him from struggling and singing?" The doctor said, "It's a fever." My mother asked, "What is a fever?" The doctor said, "I can't explain it. It's an infinitesimal microbe that invades the human body and is invisible to our naked eyes." " So the doctor said goodbye.She still kept talking to herself: "Infinitely small microbes. We can't see them with our naked eyes." At dusk the priest came to comfort her.She wept and cried out: "Oh, why have I lost my son, my son of the head and face, my only son?" said the priest Hu, "My child, it is God's will. " The woman asked: "What is God, and where is God? I want to see God, tear my chest in front of God, and drown the blood in my heart at God's feet. Tell me, I will Where to find God." The priest replied, "God is infinite. We cannot see it with our naked eyes." Then the woman cried out: "The infinitely small, by means of the infinitely great will, killed my son! What are we then? What are we?" At this moment the woman's mother came into the room Here she comes, holding in her hand the city wrapping the body of the dead child.She heard the priest's words, and heard her daughter's cry.She put down the shroud in her hand, took her daughter's hand in her own, and said: "My daughter, we ourselves are both the infinitely small and the infinitely large; we are microbes and God's way." whale and butterfly One evening a man and a woman met unexpectedly and were traveling together in a stagecoach.They have met before. The man was a poet, and he sat beside the woman and tried to amuse her with stories, some of which were of his own making and some of which he was not. However, while he was telling the story, the lady fell asleep.Then, the carriage swayed suddenly, and the lady woke up. She said: "I really appreciate the story you described about Jonah and the whale." The poet intervened: "However, Madame, the story I was telling you just now was my own creation, about a butterfly and a white rose, and how they treated each other with courtesy." peaceful infection A flowering branch said to its neighbor, "It is a dreary and empty day." The neighbor replied, "It is indeed an empty and dreary day." Now a sparrow hid on a branch, and then another on a neighboring one. One sparrow chirped, "My mate has left me." Another sparrow yelled, "My mate is gone too, she won't be coming back. I don't care!" The two sparrows began chirping and calling each other, and soon they were fighting, and in the There was a piercing sound in the air. Suddenly, two more sparrows glided down from the sky, and they sat quietly beside the two restless sparrows.Then there is tranquility, there is peace. The four sparrows caught the ground in pairs and flew away together. Then the flowering branch said to its neighbor, "That's a big change in the sound." The neighbor replied, "Call it whatever you like, it's peaceful and spacious now. It seems to me that if there is peace in the sky above, there will also be peace in the lower world. Will you sway a little closer to me in the wind?" said the flowering branch, "Ah, for peace Because of this, it may be possible before the spring is gone." So it was swaying itself in the strong spring breeze, and embraced the neighbor. shadow One day in June, the grass said to the shadow of the elm tree, "You are shaking from side to side too often, and you are disturbing my peace." The shadow answered, "It's not me, it's not me. Look up to the sky. There's a tree between the sun and the earth, swaying from side to side in the wind." Green Grass looked up and saw the elm tree for the first time.Qingcao thought in her heart: "Hey, look, there is a grass bigger than me." So the grass fell silent. seventy years old "I love you," said the young poet to the Duchess. "I love you too, my child," replied the Duchess. "But I'm not your child. I'm a man, and I love you." "I am the mother of my children," said the Duchess, "and my children are the parents of their children; and one of my grandchildren is older than you." The poet said: "But I love you." Not long after, the Duchess died.But before the Duchess's last breath was contained by the breath of the earth, she said in her heart: "My darling, my little boy, my young poet, perhaps some day we shall meet again , and I'm not seventy." seek god Two people were walking in the valley, and one of them pointed to the mountainside and said, "Did you see that hermitage? There lived a man who had been cut off from the world for a long time. He wanted nothing from the world. He Just looking for God." Another said: She will not find God unless he leaves his hermitage.To leave his solitude and come back to our world, to share our sorrows, to dance with us at the wedding feast, to weep with those who weep around the coffins of the dead. " The first person was persuaded by him from the bottom of his heart, but although he was convinced, he replied: "I agree with what you said, but I believe that the hermit is a kind person. A kind person is independent, compared with Then the hypocrisy and hypocrisy of some people is more beneficial to the world, isn't it good?" big river In the Kadisha valley where the great river flows, two streams meet and talk. One brook said, "My friend, how did you get here, and what was your path?" Another brook answered, "My path is the hardest. The mill wheel is broken, and often Lead me from the channel to his crops; there the peasants die. I drain the filth of men, and struggle to stream down; who do nothing but bask lazily in the sun. But my brother , what about the way you flow?" The first stream answered, "My way is very different. I flow down from the hills among the fragrant flowers and shy willows, where men and women drink from silver cups, and children Paddle by the brook with little rosy feet, and all around me are laughter and sweet songs, it's a pity that your path should have been so unpleasant." Then the great river said in a loud voice, "Come in, come in, let us run into the sea. Come in, come in, don't talk too much. Join me now. We will run to In the sea. Flow in, flow in, for the moment you enter my riverbed, you will forget your wandering, be it pain or pleasure. Flow in, flow in. Once we reach our mother— — the sea — you and I will forget all the way we've flowed." two hunters One day in May, joy and sorrow met by the lake.They greeted each other and sat down near the lake to talk. Joy spoke of the beauties of the land, of the wonders of daily life in the mountains and woods, of the songs heard in the morning and in the evening. Then Sorrow spoke, and she agreed with all that Joy said; for Sorrow knows the magic of time and the beauty in it. Sorrow was also eloquent when she spoke of the fields and hills of May. Joy and sorrow talked together for a long time, and they agreed in all that they had seen. But at this time, two hunters walked by the other side of the lake.The hunters looked across the lake, and one of them said, "I don't know who these two people are." The second hunter said, "You said there were two people? I only saw one person." The first hunter said: "There are indeed two people." The second hunter said: "I can see only one person; and there is only one person's reflection in the lake." "No, there are two people," said the first hunter, "the reflection of two people is also in the calm lake." But the second hunter said again: I only saw one person. "The first hunter said again: "But I clearly saw two people. " To this day, the second hunter says that the first hunter was blinded and saw two things, and the first hunter says, "My friend is somewhat blind." another homeless Once, I met another wanderer.He was also a little crazy, and he said to me: "I am a nomad. I often feel that I am walking among the world. Because my head is farther from the ground than their heads are from the gr