The Indian legend counts that a man was transporting water every day to its village using two big vessels, you hold in the extremities of a wooden piece that it was placing crossed on its backs.
One of the vessels was older than other one, and it had small cracks; whenever the man was covering the way up to its house, half of the water was getting lost.
For two years the man did the same trajectory. The youngest vessel was always very proud of its performance, and was sure that it was on a par with the mission for which had been created, while other one was dying of shame to fulfill scarcely half of its task, even knowing that those cracks were the fruit of a lot of time of work.
It was so ashamed that one day, while the man was preparing himself to extract ground water, decided to speak with him:
- I want to apologize to you since, due to my long use, only you manage to deliver half of my load, and satisfy half of the thirst that waits in your house.
The man smiled and said to him:
- when we should return, please he observes carefully the way.
This way it did it. And the vessel noticed that, for the side where she was going, many flowers and plants were growing.
- Do you see how is the nature more beautiful in the side that you cover? – the man commented on. I always knew that you had cracks, and resolved to make use of this fact. I sowed vegetables, flowers and vegetables, and you have always watered them. I already gathered many roses to adorn my house, fed my children with lettuce, cabbage and onions. If you were not as you are: how might it have done it?
"All of us, in some moment, age and happen to have other qualities. There is always possible to be useful each of these new qualities to obtain a good result".
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Dao De Jing
Spiritual[Dao] means a road, path, way; and hence, the way in which one does something; method, doctrine, principle.
