杯和咖啡
If you have an apple, I have an apple, after changing, we still have only one; if you have an idea, I have an idea, after changing,
we will own two. That is share.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite.
He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and worse, you were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain. Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
一群毕业多年的好友，已在各自的职业道路上颇有建树，相约返回母校，探望他们的导师。聊天的话题很快就转到抱怨上，抱怨各自工作和生活的压力。
老师端着一大壶咖啡和一个装着各式各样咖啡杯的托盘从厨房出来，这些杯子有瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的，或朴素、或昂贵、或精巧……
他让大家挑选自己喜欢的容器装咖啡。
当所有的人都有一杯热咖啡在手，老师开口了：“不知你们发现没有，所有漂亮的、看起来昂贵的杯子都被选中，留下的都是朴素和便宜的。每个人都希望得到最好的，这很正常，这也是每个人问题和压力的来源,你们真正想要的是咖啡而不是杯子，但是你们下意识的选择更好的杯子，并且盯着别人手里的杯子。”
“如果人生是咖啡，工作、金钱和地位就是杯子。它们只是承载和容纳人生的容器，并不会改变生命的质量。”如果只将注意力集中在杯子上，我们往往会忘记享受咖啡本身的美味。
If you have an apple, I have an apple, after changing, we still have only one; if you have an idea, I have an idea, after changing,
we will own two. That is share.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite.
He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and worse, you were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain. Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
一群毕业多年的好友，已在各自的职业道路上颇有建树，相约返回母校，探望他们的导师。聊天的话题很快就转到抱怨上，抱怨各自工作和生活的压力。
老师端着一大壶咖啡和一个装着各式各样咖啡杯的托盘从厨房出来，这些杯子有瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的，或朴素、或昂贵、或精巧……
他让大家挑选自己喜欢的容器装咖啡。
当所有的人都有一杯热咖啡在手，老师开口了：“不知你们发现没有，所有漂亮的、看起来昂贵的杯子都被选中，留下的都是朴素和便宜的。每个人都希望得到最好的，这很正常，这也是每个人问题和压力的来源,你们真正想要的是咖啡而不是杯子，但是你们下意识的选择更好的杯子，并且盯着别人手里的杯子。”
“如果人生是咖啡，工作、金钱和地位就是杯子。它们只是承载和容纳人生的容器，并不会改变生命的质量。”如果只将注意力集中在杯子上，我们往往会忘记享受咖啡本身的美味。
[ 此帖被Sadistic_在2016-12-15 07:56重新编辑 ]