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Is the bird alive?
The young man was at the end of his training, soon he would go on to be a teacher. Like all good pupils, he needed to challenge his teacher and to develop his own way of thinking. He caught a bird, placed it in one hand and went to see his teacher.
‘Teacher, is this bird alive or dead?’
His plan was the following: if his teacher said ‘dead’, he would open his hand and the bird would fly away. If the answer was ‘alive’, he would crush the bird between his fingers; that way the teacher would be wrong whichever answer he gave.
‘Teacher, is the bird alive or dead?’ he asked again.
‘My dear student, that depends on you,’ was the teacher’s reply
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O pássaro está vivo?
O jovem está no final de seu curso, em breve passaria a ensinar.Como todo bom aluno, precisa desafiar seu professor, e desenvolver sua própria maneira de pensar. Captura um pássaro, coloca-o numa das mãos, e vai até ele:
- Mestre este pássaro está vivo ou morto?
Seu plano era o seguinte: se o mestre dissesse “morto” ele abriria a mão e o pássaro voaria. Se a resposta fosse “vivo”, ele esmagaria a ave entre os dedos; assim, o mestre sempre estaria errado.
- Mestre, o pássaro está vivo ou morto? – insiste.
- Meu caro aluno, isto vai depender de você – responde o professor.
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¿El pájaro está vivo?
El joven estaba concluyendo su periodo de preparación, y muy pronto pasaría a enseñar. Como todo buen alumno, necesitaba desafiar a su profesor, y desarrollar su propia manera de pensar. Así que capturó un pájaro, lo agarró con una mano, y lo llevó hasta él:
-Maestro: ¿este pájaro está vivo o muerto?
Su plan era el siguiente: si el maestro dijera “muerto”, él abriría la mano y el pájaro se echaría a volar. Si la respuesta fuese “vivo”, él lo aplastaría entre los dedos. De esa manera, el maestro siempre estaría equivocado.
-Maestro, ¿el pájaro está vivo o muerto? – insiste.
-Mi querido alumno, esto va a depender de ti – es el comentario del maestro.
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superare il maestro con l’inganno equivale a non aver appreso nulla.una competizione deve essere costruttiva.
io penso che quando noi siamo o pensiamo di aver appreso tutto stiamo commettendo un errore,quello di chiuderci dinanzi agli altri.
EL ALUMNO MUY PERSPICAZ QUIZO HACER CAER A SU PROFESOR PERO ESTE POR SU EXPERIENCIA YA SABIA LA RESPUESTA POR TAL MOTIVO NO CAYO EN LA TRAMPA
Bonito mensaje
Más que como el alumno me siento como el pájaro, a merced del destino, y sin embargo agradecido por haber sostenido la prueba.
Un saludo, ya solo espero a que todo se coloque en su sitio de manera natural, por si solo, poco más puedo hacer, trabajar y esperar.
Hoy siento que voy a dejar la cárcel en breve, es como si estuviera recogiendo mis cosas y despidiéndome de lo que ha sido mi mundo durante casi 20 años, la mitad de mi vida. No se que me espera fuera, pero ya pondrá Dios las cosas en su sitio, y a pesar de todo con una grata sensación de orgullo.
Un saludo, fueron vuestras cartas las que me mantuvieron siempre con esperanza y me ayudaron cuando no tenía fuerzas ni para sonreír.
Gracias compañeros.
Life really depends on us… :)
very nice to read the story !
this is called “gagar main sagar” in Hindi.
this help to learn the real meaning of the attitude u may have towards the life.
And now, how will I decide? … dead or alive? … when it is only up to me … my answer is “alive”… :o)
truly, i don’t get what this story intended to say.
_ita
Il passero è vivo?
Il giovane era alla fine del suo apprendimento e presto sarebbe diventato anch’egli un insegnante.
Come tutti i bravi allievi, sentì il bisogno di sfidare il maestro e migliorare il suo modo di pensare.
Catturò un passero, lo mise nella mano e andò dal maestro.
‘Maestro, il passero è vivo o morto?’
Il suo piano era il seguente: se la risposta fosse stata ‘morto’, egli avrebbe aperto la mano e fatto volar via l’uccello. Se la risposta fosse stata ‘vivo’, lo avrebbe schiacciato fra le dita.
‘Maestro, il passero è vivo o morto?’ chiese di nuovo.
‘Mio caro allievo, dipende da te.’ fu la risposta.
Yes,it’s depend on our self even if it’s had positive or negative result … our mind is the judge.
wonderful 10 sec read …
thanks
adoro vir aki quase todos os dias e ler esse 10 sec reading ou qq texto…
sempre uma linda licao…
ainda bem que existe o twitter!
obrigada paulo!
nice story
it’s brilliant how the teacher replied .I didn’t expect it to be honest ,,,
anyway , i hope we become intelligently quick thinking like this teacher.
coz this new generation is really frightening
good luck to ya’ll
salam
Rawaa’ from Syria
i’ve heard this from my professor way back in college and i like it that ive read this again today! thanks.
L’ecole de la vie
Elle est la pour te faire avancer au-dela.
Elle est enfouie au plus profond de soi – ton ame -
Les mots ne sont pas toujours necessaires; elle va au-dessus de cela.
Elle est comme “Une promesse qui rend les enfants joyeux”
Elle nous rassure et nous console.
Elle nous enseigne le travail de la discipline et de croire en nous.
Elle change nos obsessions en force.
Elle est remplie d’humanite.
Elle est internationale.
Elle rompt toutes les barrieres – religieuse, race, age et gendre -
Elle est la pour partager et communiquer
C’est une guerre avec une difference.
C’est la bataille contre la verite.
Elle est robuste.
Elle est remplie de sagesse.
Elle appelle les choses par leur nom : le bon sens.
Elle nous enseigne l’appreciation dans les plus petites besognes
Elle est simple et profondement satisfaisante.
C’est l’essence meme de notre existence.
C’est “TOI” en cours de developpement.
C’est un cadeau qui est apprecie.
C’est l’ecole de la vie.
C’est un examen de conscience delicieux.
C’est un engagement.
Marie-Christine
Paulo, c’est pour toi.
avec tout mon amour.
sometimes…we are looking for guidance and wisdom..in other’s….and seek the answers the correct path…sometimes…..we find the igniting spark hear in this blog.
This is a tale that helps us remember…we have the power in our own hands!
Thanks again for reminding me……
Inspirational reading
The hand also seems to me like a reverse rainbow… and the blue of the picture is the sky…
And Maybe a normal rainbow is made by these birds when they decide to fly… (that rhymed, hehe)
Hermoso..el cielos siempre es AZUL..siempre..
Y siempre se puede pintar un arco iris..de colores intensos,donde se pueda colgar los sueños..canciones..poemas..Amor..
El pajaro que habita nuestro corazon,siempre puede volar..por ese cielo..cuando quiera..
Gracias Annie..gracias por haberma enseñado a volar..a ver lo que no podia ver..por estar en mi alma,ser parte de mi..Hace un año que empece a escribir en este blog magico..y hoy quiero agradecer a todos..los que son parte de esto..por su luz..y por sobre todo a Paulo que es el mentor de todo esto..El faro en nuestrA PLAYA..eL GUIA DE ESTOS GUERREROS DE LUZ,QUE SALEN A LA VIDA TODOS LOS DIAS..
sIEMPRE VUELEN..LUCHEN POR SUS SUEÑOS..AMEN,DIGAN LO QUE SIENTEN ..SIN REPAROS..ROMPAN SUS CRISTALES..vivan..
gRACIAS..LOS QUIERO A TODOS..gRACIAS mARIE..oLTA..cAROLENA..POR VER MI LUZ..y GRACIAS A VOS MI ALMITA HERMOSA..BESOS..
Life is a song. “Love this is my song”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZezH0sQkjSQ&feature=related
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Querida amiga,Marie..vos sos amor..gracias por estar..por ser como sos..Mi amiga..besos
A volar..
Always a choise to make..
so simple and difficult at the same time!
love
Sari
Yes, God gave us free will and everything around us, depends on what we will do… It’s great gift, but we should use it, being responsible…
What a lovely image, it conveyed a lot of positive energy.
It is so nice to have the net at home back!
The story made me laugh and taught the disciple the infinite possibilities that exist in the universe. No matter how wise or prepared we think we are the unexpected is waiting for us around the corner.
Have a beautiful day.
We all need challenges to develop – masters as well as students. Challenging one another they both can increase their abilities and wisdom.
Reading this brings me to the gift of God … freedom, power to make my own choices. The Master, the Teacher for me is my God, and he lets me free to become as He is or not. Funny because that is how I feel now … time to “teach” in the sense of acting, living knowing that the apprentice process is done “for me”. Time to leave the bench now and put my skills at work … The power to create is given to all … but again, create has different meaning, and for this student, for me, he still has to learn … still caught in basic mental activity … has to stay a bit in class to learn to silence his Ego.
Love, Jojo.
I agree with you my dear Jojo!
By the way, I m so glad that you now have opened your wings and are ready to fly. Ready to give much more of your light to the others with love. I am happy I was one of your students ;)
I think the same. If you want to learn you’ve got to be humble. How can you pretend to be above the light that made you see before you’ve experienced the path He did at least. You just can’t.
Annie mentioned rainbow’s colors and I think that all of our lights, gifts and talents are like special different lights for each of us. It might be the same for the student and the master but, still one must never forget that it is needed humility to learn and learning leads to humility. :)
But in the other hand I’d congratulate that student for the courage he had on finding such a trick for his master even though to me that was such a brilliant idea.
His first mistake was on idealizing his master. I don’t think that being a master means being unmistakable and maybe by getting above him he’d be ready to teach, by probably being better than his own master. Well… there he got a surprise…
Yes there is freedom to make your own choices, your own mistakes. A good master will show you the way, but he won’t be the perfect mind where you’ll get all the right information. I believe that this is how it works isn’t it?
That kind of master you will only find in God, but his words mostly lie in silence and signs through love to find.
Anyway lets give a brake to the student, he chose his own way even though I find it cruel crushing the poor innocent sweet soft little beautiful birdie… :’(
tweet tweet tweet! :)
Pienso en mis decisiones, pienso que a veces se ha de optar entre la solución menos mal, no la que desearíamos sino la que en ese momento existe.
Elijo libremente pero dentro de unas limitaciones ajenas a mi, vivo en el cuerpo que vivo y con una enfermedad que me condiciona a la hora de relaccionarme, a la hora de actuar y de pensar, a la hora de sentir. Soy libre dentro de una carcel que con el tiempo se va haciendo más grande, incluso a veces puedo sacar la cabeza por entre las rejas; y con este condicionamiento intento actuar de la manera más acertada posible.
Pasa el tiempo y vuelvo a ser el que era, me gustaría que un día mi vida fuera normal, como antes de todo esto, mientras tanto hago lo que puedo; hay sintomas de mi recuperación, me voy notando más firme, más sereno, tendría que tener un trabajo bueno, para eso estudie y trabajé, para pagar mis estudios manteniendome con lo mínimo, recuperar a la gente que perdí, y poder dar lo mejor de mi a quienes conocieron y soportaron una sombra de lo que era.
Leí alguna vez algo en los evangelios que decía que para el banquete de boda había que estar vestido para la boda, pués es lo que quiero, volver a ser yo y engalanarme con lo mejor de mi, uno no se puede presentar ante su novia vestido de cualquier manera, es lo único que puedo elejir hoy por hoy, no puedo cambiar ni mi yo ni mi situación a otro ritmo, pero sin duda cambio.
Héroe.
I loved that story as I am a teacher.The new teachging year is approaching and I would like to wish luck to all my colleauges and pray that their students hearts will always be alive to receiving new knowledge.
Challenging your master is all fine, so long as one does not think of oneself as superior to master, challenging to learn, learn some more !
master being a master, is a master not for nothing; one cannot trick a master, or can one.
so master paulo – how is your world vision shaping up. yesterday saw a documentary on planet earth, one od teh discovery series, dfeels so sad that we humans will be destroyng what took billions of years to make. humans and tehir greed for more and more. hills are being sold for mining, jungles for …./ and to TOP IT ALL< THE WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION IS BEING DONE IN THE NAME OF 'DEVELOPMENT', development of the economic status of promotors at teh cost of the fragile ecology. 'development' my foot. before humans can decide what is development, let them understand what they have.
love
Morrer ou viver? morremos e vivemos todos os dias. a cada dia basta o seu mal. Vivemos testando o próximo todo o tempo,e somos testados também. é uma necessidade de encontrar no outro respostas para nossos questionamentos,mesmo sabendo todas as respostas.
El pájaro vuela y vuela por campos y tierras no es atrapado por mano cualquiera, en mano ajena el pájaro canta por tristeza y muere por verguenza . . .
Un Abrazo.
the teacher finds a solution that goes beyond the right-wrong logic.
I see the nasty idea of the student (to crash the bird, just to be right). his answer “throws the ball back” to the student and there he sits with his nastiness and the full responsibility.
enjoyed so much reading your comments.
the whole story reflects so well a communication pattern that I have observed so often.
it is so “simple,” the dynamics look always the same. hm, to respond just in a second like the teacher… wish I was born with it :o)
Yo pienso que siempre estamos aprendiendo en esta vida . . . En este caso el alumno debe apreciar todo lo que le ha enseñado su maestro , tener sus propios conocimientos y manera de pensar.Respecto a la historia cuado el maestro dice “eso depende de tí” es porque el alumno ya se siente preparado y tendrá que escoger su camino, no depende de lo que diga el profesor,depende de él.
This confused me a little… my mind was full, too many things to say..
if he chose DEATH, THE BIRD would LIVE
if he chose LIFE, the bird would DIE..
PARADOX IN ALL ITS MAJESTY
now that was such an unlucky bird.. i hope it found a way to fly away..
SO, Choose life or death?? that’s the question here…
if the other chooses LIFE for us , we live their life, which is DEATH for us..
if the other choosed DEATH for us , SO he cannot have any influence on us , WE live, IT S LIFE for us, as we want it!
the Master said he would choose, a metaphor for God to give us the great power of choice to live life as we want it..
In the end, everything, just EVERYTHING IS a matter of life or death.. Is the bird alive or dead? i hope the apprentice chooses Life, and let the bird and himself fly..
Love and Gratitude
Annie
Nadie tiene que morir..es una cuestion de decicion..de ser inteligentes..y saber vivir..y volar..el pajaro debe volar..y el aprendiz aprender a vivir..y aceptar sus errores..aceptarse a si mismo..
Todo puede ser..sin tener que morir..
y esa es la cuestion..saber..ser feliz..sin morir en el intento..
besos..
Tal vez,el pajaro ama a el aprendiz..y lo quiere ayudar..elige hacerse el muerto o vivir segun la pocion..y el aprendiz se da cuenta de lo importante que es ese pajaro para el..
El amor lo puede todo..el pajaro vuela en libertad cuando lo desea,y vuelve a su amor cuando lo desee..
En la vida tambien suceden cosas maravillosas fuera de la razon..Magicas..yo creo en eso..creo en el amor..besos
At least the master spoke to the student….
This is the type of back and forth that is going on with people around the world. We all want the same thing but people want to be the controller.
There is no need to challenge the master! I’m not sure where this idea came from but I guess some people need to feel that everything and everyone in life needs to be dominated.
..’he needed to challenge his teacher and to develop his own way of thinking’.
It is said that a good teacher creates students that become better than himself. He gives all his knowledge and experience and he guides his students to …. develop their own way of thinking! By doing this he … develops his own skills of … mind-reading! Mind reading is usually telepathy, empathy, but a good guessing too!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
every in this life depends of you. You are the teacher of your steps.
Thank you Paulo.
siempre depende de uno mismo..de sus propias deciciones..
Ser libre..volar..esta en nuestro corazon..
besos…si nos equivocamos somos nosotros mismos..sin hechar culpas a los demas..Seamos libres..
WHERE IS the orange bird??? it is missing. is it flying ? or does that depend on me ?!:D
Love and Gratitude
Annie
look at the red one. it has a lot of orange that comes through. and it is ready to fly :o)
:)
This was the concept of the story I shared three years ago, during my speech at Elementary Graduation.
Our future could be promising or not, and it all depends on our effort… the options are always with us.
good.
I was afraid we lost you :o)
Tear drops from my right eye, my rational side. I totally agree with what you said about God in the 3. part, else I understood words and made the context.
Thank you.
Matador.
xx
The school of life
It is there to push you forward and beyond
It digs deep down to the core of the matter – your soul -
It does not need any words – it goes beyond that -
It is cosy
It is like a promise that makes children happy
It is re-assuring and comforting
It teaches you discipline-task and to believe in yourself.
It turns around your obsessions into strength.
It is humane
It is international
It breaks all barriers -religions, ages, races and genders-
It is a different kind of war.
It is the battle against the truth
It is tough
It is full of wisdom
It is plain common sense
It teaches you appreciation in the smallest task
It is simple and very fulfilling
It is the essence of being
It is you in the making
It is a gift that is appreciated.
It is the school of life.
It is a soul-searching delight.
It is a commitment.
With love to Paulo and all the WOLS
Marie-Christine
La escuela de la vida
Esta ahi para empujar,hacia adelante y fuera de ella.
Cava hasta el moello de la cuestion – su alma -
Que no necesita palabras – que va mas alla -
Es acogedor
Es como una promesa que hace que un nino es feliz.
Es re-asegurar y reconfortante.
Que te ensena disciplina tareas y creer en si mismo.
Resulta alrededor de sus obsesiones en fortalezas.
Es ser humano.
Es internacional.
ROmpe todas las barreras- religiones, edades, razas y generos -
Es un tipo diferente de la guerra
Es la batalla contra la verdad.
Es duro.
Es lleno de sabiduria.
Es puro sentido comun.
Que te ensena reconocimiente en la meneor tarea
Es simple y muy satisfactorio.
Es la esencia del que es usted en la formacion.
Es un don que es aprecio.
Es la escuela de la vida
Es una introspeccion deliciosa.
Es un compromiso.
Marie-Christine
Paulo – porque me importa.
Con amor