The Reality Of Happiness

It is said that a merchant sent his son Ki when the wisest man in the world to teach him the secret of happiness, the boy walked a very long distance, and after forty days arrived at the palace Bahi built on the top of a high mountain, people told him that the wise looking for live in this palace, , But he found him full of many people who came to seek advice from the wise man, so he waited for several hours until his turn came.

When the boy came and stood in the hands of the wise man asking him about the secret of true happiness, the wise man listened attentively to him and then said to him: "My time is not enough to answer your question, so I ask you to walk around the palace until I finish my work, "Hold this spoon in your hand as you walk around the palace, but be careful not to spill the oil around the palace!" Hakim added after he gave the boy a small spoon containing a little oil. The young man began to walk around the palace, and all this time he focused on the spoon in his hands for fear of the oil falling out of it until he returned to meet the wise man asked by the wise man, who began by asking him: "Have you seen the precious old artifacts that I kept in my room? The beautiful garden? Did you stop the precious books that I kept in my library?

The young man felt confused and shocked. He told the wise man that he was aware of these matters. He was focused on not letting the oil out of the spoon. He said, "Go back and walk in the palace again." The boy went back to the palace. On the walls, and enjoy the beautiful garden scene and fragrant flowers, and when he returned to the wise narrated to him in detail what he saw in the palace, the wise asked him: "But where is the oil that was present in the spoon?" The boy looked at the spoon and found that it had spilled without attention, and the wise man said to him, "This is the advice I can give you." The secret of happiness is to be able to enjoy life and beauty without pouring oil from your spoon. Understanding the boy the destination of the wise, explained happiness is that a person can balance things, and enjoy his life with attention to his health and work, and maintain his reputation.