I don't know
Mr. Sok just received a PhD degree from USA
and returned to Cambodia. As he was out of the country for
such long period, he wanted to visit several places in
Cambodia. He decided to make his first trip to Sihanouk
Ville by train.
On the way to the beach, he sat in a train
cabinet next to a Cambodian farmer, who dressed very old
cloths and looked very poor. The train was so slow and Dr.
Sok started to be bored. As he wanted to kill the times, he
began to speak to the farmer:
Hello Bang (he spoke like an American)! I
want to play a game. We can ask each other a question, and
if I cannot answer yours, I will give you ten dollars, but
if you cannot answer mine, you give me one dollar, Okay? You
start first!
The farmer smiled a little bit, and started
thinking for a while. A few minutes later he asked:
What has 12 legs, takes 12 hours to claim
up to the palm tree, and comes down in only 2 seconds?
Dr. Sok had no clue what was about. He kept
thinking for many hours. As the train almost arrived the
station, he said:
OK, I don’t know and he gave the
farmer ten dollars.
As the train stopped, Dr. Sok asked the farmer:
so what should be the answer to your question?
The farmer gave one dollar back to Dr. Sok
(kept nine dollars in his pocket), and replied “
I don’t
know”
either.
I used to do like this
The story was told my Khmer literature teacher as I was
attending the 11th class at high school.
My teacher’s
husband has a higher status position in the government and
he has his personal driver. One occasion, that driver has to
drive my teacher to school as need help for few days. While
sitting in the car, she felt that the driver has a very
strange driving style. Furthermore, she observed that every
time he turns left, he used to take a shape curve, and often
makes difficulty to anyone who just want to turn right from
the road he turn left to. After observing this style a few
times:
Why do you take so sharp curve when you turn, asked my
teacher?
This is my style. I have 20 years experience in driving and
used to do like this? Answered the driver.
I think you have been repeated this mistake for 20 years,
can you stop doing this and take care of other people while
driving? I just saw you almost hit with other car and the
driver in that car looks very angry.
Driver: ???
Mindfulness practice
"Master, how
do
you put enlightenment into action? How do you practice it in
everyday life? "
"By eating and
by sleeping", replied the Master.
"But Master,
everybody sleeps and everybody eats"
"But not
everybody eats when they eat, and not everybody sleeps when
they sleep"
Source:
Vision Quest Africa
What
will be happened during the rest of my life?
A poor man went to a
fortune teller. After looking around his face, eyes and
observing his hand palms, the fortune teller said:
" You will be able
to live 80 years. And from now until the middle of your
life, you will be poor".
The man seemed agree
with the fortune teller as he is currently actually very
poor even he works hard. He was wondering if he will be poor
until the middle of his life, so what will be happened
during the rest of his life. He asked the fortune teller:
So, what will be happened thereafter?
"
You will get used to it",
replied the fortune teller
What will we lose?
In an
organization, there was an expatriate working with a
Cambodian team. That expatriate was very nice in
personality, but he has a habit that every time he used to
submit the report lately, and the Cambodian team used to get
complain (problem) from the customers.
Five years
later, he resigned from his post. Another expatriate, who
was responsible for the human resource development call all
relevant Cambodian staff for a meeting, and asked the
question:
When he leaves,
what will we lose? (She wanted to emphasis on skills and
expertise, but did not mention in her question).
A manager
replied: "We
will
lose
Headache..."
