MOL 1st
Parable - Dinoer and Fatty
"Eureka!
Eureka! Look what I have found!" exclaimed
Fatty before he gathered enough oxygen to make
this important announcement. Dinoer lift his
eyelids, which was his most vigorous way of
saying, "Yes, I am extremely
interested."
By the way, Fatty
and Dinoer are not some persons who you will see
in the downtown shopping malls. There are two
reasons:
1, They lived 225 million years ago in the
Jurassic age long before any downtown or shopping
mall had been invented.
2, Fatty is a Triceratops and Dinoer is a
Tyrannosaurus, both are too big to fit into a
regular size shopping mall.
"You
see what's on my tail?" Fatty said urgently.
Dinoer wanted to say fat and cholesterol but he
hesitated to give a direct answer because he
thought it could be a trick question.
"See
the four letters on my tail? It spell P. A. I.
N." Fatty said fluently, "You know
pain? When you step on a cactus, it is pain. When
you hit your head on the oak tree, it is pain.
When your mother-in-law hit you with her giant
tail, it is pain. Pain causes the miseries of our
lives. Pain hindering us from fun. "
Dinoer
looked unmoved but Fatty continued, "Imagine
a world without pain
We can jump off the
cliff and never fell pain. We can swallow the
cactus and never feel pain. We can hit our
mother-in-law and never feel pain of getting
revenge. When pain is gone, we will be
reborn!"
Fatty
showed no sign of stopping, "When God
created the dinosaur, he gave us the tail to make
us pain. But he forgot to remove the label on my
tail so now I understand pain come from my tail
and if I remove my tail, all my pain will be
gone!"
Dinoer
nodded his head. He said with a voice of deep
wisdom, "I knew it and actually all
dinosaurs knew it so most of them removed their
tail just to avoid pain. Yes, it did remove their
physical pain but only at the sacrifice of worsen
the pain in heart. Pain is not pain. It is simply
fear wearing the mask of pain. Pain is not a
physical sensation. The physical sensation is a
friend who is advising you to protect your body.
Only fear is enlarging your friendly message into
the fearful monster that haunted you throughout
your life. Those dinosaurs who lost their tail
were in a never-ending quest to end the
never-existed pain. They grew tired and died.
That's why we were the only two dinosaurs left in
the world
"
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