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Once there lived a zen master who solve peoples problem. one day many people visited Zen master to ask solutions for their problems in the life . The people who gather to see the master have the same problem of stress life and they could not able to balance their life properly and they could not able to lead a happy life. so after hearing all this people's problem the master kept silent and went inside his room ,after sometime he came out with the glass jar and bag in his hand .
Then he put the jar on the table in front of everyone then he asked everyone what is this everyone said, sir this is an Empty jar,again he took some golf balls out of the bag and filled the jar.
Then he asked ,Is it full now,all said yes.Then he put small pebbles in jar and asked everyone again if the jar was full,all said yes. Then he had some box of sand from his bag and poor it into the Jar.
Of course the sand particles filled up all the empty space in the jar then he asked them again if the jar was full all the people smile and responded, yes master jar is full now then zen master got little serious and said, friends I want you to recognise that ,this jar represents your life, Golf balls represents important things like your family, your health,your passion .
The pebbles represent your other important things like your cars ,your joy,your home and sand is everything else it is just a small stuff if you put the sand into the jar first then you won't have room for the Golf balls or pebbles. same as this in your life. If you spend all of your energy and time on the small stuff then you won't have time for all the really important things that matters to you.
So we must pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness take care of golf first the real important things that your priority because rest is just sand.
so friends in our life these days people are unable to leave a well balance free and happy life, because they do not know how to set their priorities like master said in the story ,your family, your health, your passion must be your first priority because spending time with your family, taking care of your health and following your passion these are the things which will give you more happiness then anything else , your second priority should be your job ,your car ,your house ,your friends because these are also very important in your life and can give you pleasure. rest of the things are just like sand it don't matter much to you whether it is there or not , so if you want to live happy and stress free life then set your priority first and then give time to those priorities accordingly, if you can do this then you can certainly leave a well balanced stress free and happy life.
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~ Rekha