PARABLES TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASY

"HOW TO ESCAPE THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE WORLD"
This world can be a tempting place and bring before us many faces of temptation to which we become attached and then ultimately destroy our peace of mind and our lives.
THE PARABLE OF THE TWO FLIES
"If thou wish that thy heart be never broken,
Then, O Loved One, bind it not to anyone!
In other words, if you wish that your heart be never broken, then do not bind your heart to anyone. It is this union, this attachment that brings about the shock of separation.
Two flies flew towards two separate cups of honey and each one sat upon a cup. The first fly became so attached to the honey that it fell into it and wrapped it around itself. And the net result of this was that the honey, for the greed of which it had gone into the cup, became the cause of its death.
The second fly looked at the plight of the first fly and decided to play it safe. It sat on the corner of the cup and partook of the honey whenever it wanted and flew away whenever it wished to, or else went to sleep on the edge of the cup.
Whenever it would wake up and have a desire for the sip of honey it would take it and then peacefully fall asleep again.
It took the taste of the honey but always safeguarded its wings from being entrapped in the honey. It was fully engaged with the honey and yet fully disengaged from it. It was a fly and it knew that the honey was its food, but it would never go so close to it as to get its wings entrapped in it. It knew that if it allowed that to happen then it would never be able to fly away from there. And it did not want to lose its freedom at any cost.
The taste of freedom was far greater for it than the sweetness of the honey.It sat on the edge of the cup of honey and gave a lesson to humanity how it could remain free despite being involved in the attachments of the world.
But sadly the only lesson that the first fly could give to the world was that it lost the very ha

ppiness it sought from the honey when it went too close to it. Not only did it lose its freedom but it also lost all taste for the honey as well.