out of the cocoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

o u know the story of the butterfly& Zen teacher
it’s a story about little Indian boy who reaches to the guru, he saw him carrying something in his hand.
The boy approach to a guru and asked him
"what you have in hand?"
Answer him the guru," Golem & inside the Golem there is a beautiful colorful butterfly there would soon break the cocoon and left again.

"Can i take it home with me?" Asks the child?

Yes, the guru replay to him but you must promise me that when the butterfly starts to beat his wings to leathe cocoon & stargal you would not help him.

the Child promise not help the golem took the golem and went home.

After four days of waiting butterfly cocoon hiatus begins to beat him, the boy suffered when he heard the wings of a butterfly trying to break the cocoon ... He saw the weakness of the butterfly tenderness and decided despite his promise to the guru …to take the cocoon and help the butterfly out of a slot.


He opened the cocoon beautiful and colorful butterfly Climbed & fly out and fell down.
sad and crying he took the butterfly and ran to the aid of a butterfly ... to the guru house.
The guru' looked at him & said the butterfly is dead, did you help him he asked?
Yes' guru I just could not see him suffering so much…answered the chilled.
So my boy, you didn’t help him you kill him because the butterfly's struggle before he live the cocoon strengthens its wings so that he could fly ... Because you helped him he couldn't strengthened his wings so he could not fly.
How often this happens in our life? With children, with spouses & our love own ?
How many times we give up and help just 2 be loved? Just because we afraid that somebody reject us or 2 lose somebody?
There are situations in life that our help, the solution we give is a temporary solution, we quieted the problem for a week, two weeks, but not treating drug originally ... but next time this problem appears this in this beloved life once again it will be more painful & he will be more lost and helpless, that is not love and trust ?
That is fear and ego " we r stronger" not love & care
For a long time we r only weaken the person we deal with & create bigger neediness the last think that you do for him is love him, sometime though its hard you have to see people that you love in a struggle if we believe them and have the trust in life that everyone have to deal with his own "demon " he will come out stronger.
We can always sport & give love still if you really care 4 somebody don’t try to help him break his" cocoon" you not helping him just helping yourself in order 2 feel good… and there r "cocoon" that every own have 2 break with his own hand.

© Lila Benharush