Importance of Perception

There was a village of wild dogs. Those dogs lived together in their little village. They never went out of the boundaries of their village. They had the idea that it wasn't safe out there. The world was a dangerous place. So, they just stayed in their village and they never went out to see any of the rest of the world. But there was one young dog who began to wonder about that, "Is the world as dangerous as everybody thinks? Maybe we are missing out on something."

So, the young dog went to see the wise dog of the village and the wise dog said, "My son if you want to go and see the world go down the valley across the bridge to the magic temple and when you go into the temple you will find out what the world is like." That young dog mustered up his courage and early one morning we went down the valley across the bridge and kept wanting until he came to the magic temple. He was a little nervous. He was very apprehensive about what he might find in there. So, he walked into the temple with scared eyes as he looked around in there and saw a thousand scared eyes looking at him. He growled and heard a thousand growls. He bared his teeth and thousands of dogs looking at him all bared their teeth. He began to bark and a thousand dogs looking at him, barked and barked and barked. Suddenly, he was so scared that he tucked his tail between his legs, turned and ran out of the temple back across the bridge back up the valley and came home and he said "I'm never going there again. I am staying right in our village!" and he did.

 But there was a young girl dog who thought, "Is the world so scary as he said. I don't know and I don't think so. So, she went to see the wise dog of the village and the wise dog told her the same thing, "If you wish to find out what the world is like, go down the valley cross the bridge continue until you come to the magic temple and there you will discover what the world is like." She was so happy to know what she could do to find out that she set off joyfully walking down the valley across the bridge all the way to the magic temple. She was so curious to find out what the world was like that when she went in, she looked around at everything with curious eyes and a thousand curious eyes looked back at her. She smiled and there were thousands of Smiles beaming towards her she began to laugh and a thousand others laughed with her. She was so excited that she jumped up and down for joy and she wagged her tail and ran back home out of the temple of the valley across the bridge to the village to tell everyone what she saw.

She and that first dog who went to visit the wise dog. They couldn't understand how what they saw in that same place was so different. So, together they went to see the wise dog of the village and the wise dog said to them, "Of course! What you see in the world reflects what you are inside."

So, the moral of the story is that the world is a very beautiful place to live in, if we are nice and polite to everyone, as we are treated in the same way as we treat others.