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1) QUERY:
I've been contacted by the manager of an assisted living facility for seniors to do a program for her tenants. She says they are undergoing some changes to the building and it is unsettling for several of her tenants. I know the collective wisdom here always suggests things I'd never have found on my own.
RESPONSES:
a) I'm flashing on the people unhappy living so close to the mountains, who are taught the "moving the mountain dance." They pick up their possessions, face away from the mountains, do the dance by stepping forward, and find the mountain is farther away from them so they set up their village again. I have no idea where to find it or who told it . . . but I'll bet someone does.
b) Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
c) There's that Tibetan tale about a man who has a beautiful horse that runs away. The neighbors come to sympathize; he says, "Maybe it's bad, maybe it's good." The horse returns with a beautiful mate. The neighbors come to congratulate him on his good fortune. He says, "Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad." The man's son rides the new horse, falls off and breaks his leg. The neighbors...etc. Soldiers come to recruit young men into the army, but the man's son is exempted because of his broken leg. And so on. So, too, the changes in the residence, which seem to be troubling, may turn out for the best.
Book:
That's good, that's bad
Created 2004; last update 7/5/09