What is a really good parable and really unique?

Question

can anyone give me a really good parable that is unique and not from the bible?

Answer 1

Just a Fly in My Tea
"On this particular afternoon a fly fell into my tea. This was, of course, a minor occurrence. After a year in India I considered myself to be unperturbed by insects -- by ants in the sugar bin, spiders in the cupboard, and even scorpions in my shoes in the morning. Still, as I lifted my cup, I must have registered, by my facial expression, or a small grunt, the presence of the fly. Choegyal Rinpoche, the eighteen-year-old tulku leaned forward in sympathy and consternation.

"What is the matter?"

"Oh, nothing," I said. "It's nothing -- just a fly in my tea." I laughed lightly to convey my acceptance and composure. I did not want him to suppose that mere insects were a problem for me; after all, I was a seaseoned India-wallah, relatively free of Western phobias and attachments to modern sanitation.

Choegyal crooned softly, in apparent commiseration with my plight, "Oh, oh, a fly in the tea."

"It's no problem," I reiterated, smiling at him reassuringly. But he continued to focus great concern on my cup. Rising from his chair, he leaned over and inserted his finger into my tea. With great care he lifted out the offending fly -- and then exited from the room. The conversation at the table resumed. I was eager to secure Khamtul Rinpoche's agreement on plans to secure the high-altitude wool he desired for the carpet production.

When Choegyal Rinpoche reentered the cottage he was beaming. "He is going to be all right," he told me quietly. He explained how he had placed the fly on the leaf of a branch of a bush by the door, where his wings could dry. And the fly was still alive, because he began fanning his wings, and we cold confidently expect him to take flight soon...

That is what I remember of that afternoon -- not the agreements we reached or plans we devised, but Choegyal's report that the fly would live. And I recall, too, the laughter in my heart. I could not, truth to tell, share Choegyal's dimensions of compassion, but the pleasure in his face revealed how much I was missing by not extending my self-concern to all beings, even to flies. Yet the very notion that it was possible gave me boundless delight."

-- Joanna Macy
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/story/index.html

Answer 2

sure but i dont know what you are looking for so here i go

there are two trees exactly the same in all aspects. one is planted in a place with perfect soil and it gets rain water in excess of what it needs so it is very well off. the other is planted in rocky soil and it gets very little water. then one day they are both caught in a giant windstorm. tree number one is blown over after just a short while in the storm but tree number two lasts the entire storm because its root had grown strong and deep while the other tree's roots did not need to grow deep and strong because all it needed was right there at the surface and tree number two had to grow deep to get water from a more permanent source.

tree number one is a person that does not know the lord or doesn't care about him and decides to divulge in the here and now while tree number two is a man that knows god and jesus and strives to follow him or chooses to grow deeper in his faith and the wind is sin and problems of the world.

Answer 3

Dennis: Although I am a Christian, here goes one not from the Bible. There was a wise man, who threw a stone into a well, and a thousand wise men could not get it out !
Enjoy !

Answer 4

mildred was a 93 yr old woman who was broken-hearted over the death of her husband, earl. she decided to commit suicide and try to join him in heaven. thinking is would be best to have a quick death, she took out earl's old army pistol and decide to shoot herself in the heart, since that was where her pain was. not wanting to miss this vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to her kids, she called her doctor to ask just where a person could shoot themselves in order for it to be immediately fatal. the doctor, suspecting nothing, told her that on a woman, the fatal area would be just below the left breast. later that night, mildred was admitted to the emergency room with a bullet wound to her left knee...

Answer 5

Cinderalla ...

moral: "good" will ultimately triumph over "evil"

Cordially,
John
http://www.GodSci.org