How fascinating ...I've been meaning to use this tale for some time and had to hunt it down on Google only knowing the theme, but Google knew...I didn't know that Watts was aware of it. I might read him again. And yes, let's have a slightly saner New Year, if possible. Looking forward to reading you this year, no matter what kind of crazy shit goes down, you always manage to make me smile anyway...
It's a great story; Chinese in origin I believe ...and yes, it's really about how 'reality' changes with circumstances, or rather, how we perceive it. And that is what we've all been fighting about these last two years...and apparently, we're not done yet.
I’m late responding to this…wonderful fable on the relativity of good and bad fortune. One of my favourite thinkers, Alan Watts, once shared this in a talk of his. In fact, I went looking for this fable just recently in his stuff and couldn’t find it…(could only remember the bit about the boy breaking his leg, saving him from conscription) And here you’re telling the very fable I was looking for!
One more example of the peculiar scribbling synchronicity we seem to share.
And as a bonus, you’ve inserted a cartoon from my favourite cartoonist! Thanks Monika..and Happy New Year!
I love this story, I have used it when doing CBT with clients a few times. Teleology via exposition! The takeaway is also this: "don't be to sure your construction of reality is accurate"... who knows, we shall see...
Thank you Monika for this delightful story.
Wish you a merry Christmas with a healthy and happy New Year.
Gerd
How fascinating ...I've been meaning to use this tale for some time and had to hunt it down on Google only knowing the theme, but Google knew...I didn't know that Watts was aware of it. I might read him again. And yes, let's have a slightly saner New Year, if possible. Looking forward to reading you this year, no matter what kind of crazy shit goes down, you always manage to make me smile anyway...
It's a great story; Chinese in origin I believe ...and yes, it's really about how 'reality' changes with circumstances, or rather, how we perceive it. And that is what we've all been fighting about these last two years...and apparently, we're not done yet.
I’m late responding to this…wonderful fable on the relativity of good and bad fortune. One of my favourite thinkers, Alan Watts, once shared this in a talk of his. In fact, I went looking for this fable just recently in his stuff and couldn’t find it…(could only remember the bit about the boy breaking his leg, saving him from conscription) And here you’re telling the very fable I was looking for!
One more example of the peculiar scribbling synchronicity we seem to share.
And as a bonus, you’ve inserted a cartoon from my favourite cartoonist! Thanks Monika..and Happy New Year!
I love this story, I have used it when doing CBT with clients a few times. Teleology via exposition! The takeaway is also this: "don't be to sure your construction of reality is accurate"... who knows, we shall see...