{"id":69857,"date":"2024-03-07T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=69857"},"modified":"2024-03-07T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:53:09","slug":"monk-carrying-big-load-burden-or-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/monk-carrying-big-load-burden-or-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Carrying Big Load \u2013 Burden or Joy???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Once upon a time, in a village lived a monk who used to carry a big bag with him. He went around to beg for food and would accept only what he needed for the day.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He would never ask for money or accept it. Rather than that, the only thing he would ask for while begging, were toys and sweets along with food.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Those who respected him would sometimes give him toys and sweets along with food. Then he would put all those things in a big bag and distribute them among the children of the village.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>One day, a group of men who were sitting under a banyan tree, stopped him and said, <strong>\u201cPlease impart some knowledge to us about soul.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>One of them said, <strong>\u201cThis bag looks heavy, there must be something for us too, in this big bag of yours&hellip;\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Monk dropped his bag at once and said, <strong>\u201cThis is it.. This is the realization of the soul. Now, I have told you the essence of all the knowledge I had.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Seeing this, one of them asked, <strong>\u201cWhat does this mean?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Man replied, <strong>\u201cThis bag that I am carrying is a very big load and now I dropped it. Now I am free. That\u2019s all. You also drop your bag, don\u2019t live carrying unnecessary burdens.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Then one of them said, <strong>\u201cIf this is all, then what\u2019s the next step?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The man again picked up his bag and holding it on his shoulder he said, <strong>\u201cI am not carrying any load. I am just carrying a bag full of toys for children, to share happiness and joy.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>Well, it all depends on your awareness and perspective whether you consider it a burden or a bag of joy.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Saying this he went on his way.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, in a village lived a monk who used to carry a big bag with him. He went around to beg for food and would accept only what he needed for the day. He would never ask for money or accept it. Rather than that, the only thing he would ask for\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":69858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Once upon a time, in a village lived a monk who used to carry a big bag with him. He went around to beg for food and would accept only...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Burden-or-Joy.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p>