{"id":670,"date":"2023-01-29T06:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T06:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2023-01-29T06:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T06:11:04","slug":"the-story-of-the-oyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/the-story-of-the-oyster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Oyster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember this about \u2018Attention\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a fable titled \u2018The Oyster<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018Reflections\u2019. It is a collection of fables, aphorisms and statements that challenge the conditioned mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free so as to see how things really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oyster<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An oyster, lying open on the ocean bed, felt a loose pearl wash over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oyster closed its shell, and the pearl fell into a rock-crevice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After tremendous effort, the oyster managed to retrieve the pearl and placed it on a leaf just beside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This bribe may prevent the oyster-catchers from taking me,” it thought, for it knew something about men who sought for pearls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a pearl-diver, however, was ultimately in the vicinity, his eyes were alert for oyster shells, not pearls lying about loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So he took the oyster, which as it happened did not contain a pearl – and the real pearl rolled away. It has not yet been rediscovered<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fable from \u2018Reflections\u2019 by Idries Shah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reflections by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>