音频下载Let Go the Wooden Apples 放下手中的木苹果There once was a happy monkey wandering the jungle,eating delic......
英语智慧背囊02-放下手中的木苹果,
音频下载Let Go the Wooden Apples 放下手中的木苹果
There once was a happy monkey wandering the jungle,
eating delicious fruit when hungry,
and resting when tired.
One day he came upon a house,
where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful apples.
He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest.
He sniffed the apples and smelled nothing.
He tried to eat them, but hurt his teeth.
They were made of wood,
but they were beautiful,
and when the other monkeys saw them,
he held onto them even tighter.
He admired his new possessions proudly
as he wandered the jungle.
They glistened red in the sun,
and seemed perfect to him.
He became so attached to them,
that he didn’t even notice his hunger at first.
A fruit tree reminded him,
but he felt the apples in his hands.
He couldn’t bear to set them down to reach for the fruit.
In fact, he couldn’t relax, either,
if he was to defend his apples.
A proud, but less happy monkey
continued to walk along the forest trails.
The apples became heavier,
and the poor little monkey thought about leaving them behind.
He was tired, hungry,
and he couldn’t climb trees
or collect fruit with his hands full.
What if he just let go?
Letting go of such valuable things seemed crazy,
but what else could he do?
He was so tired.
Seeing the next fruit tree,
he dropped the wooden apples and reached up for his meal.
He was happy again.
Like that little monkey,
we sometimes carry things that seem too valuable to let go.
We identify so strongly with our things,
even feeling pain when our cars are dented.
How much more powerfully do we identify
with our beliefs and self-ideas?
Yet they don’t always feed our souls, do they?
And we become tired of defending them.
If he hadn’t now let the wooden apples go,
he might have been found dead of hunger,
under a beautiful tree,
with fruit within reach,
but still grasping his wooden apples.
Just remember only with open hands can we receive.
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