What can parables teach about pupils and teachers?

The parable can be called a philosophical instructive story, which necessarily contains moral edification. Those who listen to such a story with their heart perceive the wisdom hidden between the lines, think about the meaning of life, about their mistakes and correct them, learn good.

Proverbs about pupils and teachers

Quite often, the basis of stories is the cases that really happened in people's lives. A special place is occupied by parables about pupils and teachers. They directly trace the instructive nature inherent in all such stories. Here the parable is a parting word from the teacher to the disciples.

Many such legends can be found in the descriptions of the lives of Christian ascetics. Proverbs about the teacher and students make you think about philosophical topics and teach good. Let's get acquainted with some of them.

Inclinations

Once the disciples asked the old man:

- Why are the bad inclinations of a man easy for them to master, and the good ones are impermanent?

- What will happen if a diseased seed is buried in the ground, and healthy leave in the sun? The teacher asked.

"A sick seed will germinate, give a bad germ and an unhealthy fruit, and a healthy one without soil will perish," the students replied.

- So do people. Their vices and sins they hide deep in the soul, so that no one sees them. There they will grow up and ruin a man in his very heart. And people often display good deeds and boast of them, thereby ruining them, instead of being kept deep in the soul and cultivating virtues.

Proverbs about pupils and teachers help to fight human weaknesses.

Manuals on the boards

The disciple came to the elder and said:

- Father, I've been to you, I repent of my sins, every time you teach me advice, but I do not correct myself. What is the use of my visits to you, if afterwards I indulge my weaknesses again?

The elder replied:

"My son, bring two pots, one empty, and one with honey."

The disciple did what the old man said.

"And now, pass honey from one pot to another several times."

The disciple did it.

"Now look into the empty pot and smell it."

The pupil fulfilled this request and said:

"Teacher, the pot smells like honey, and there's not much left at the bottom."

"So my instructions remain in your soul." And the Lord will not turn away from you, if you keep in your heart even the first principles of righteousness.

Proverbs about disciples and teachers are able to help a person find the true path in life provided his attention and obedience.

Praise and abuse of the dead

A young monk came to the famous old man and asked him to show him the path of perfection.

"This night," replied the old man, "go to the cemetery and praise the dead, buried there before dawn, and then you will come to me and tell me how they will accept your praise."

In the morning the monk told:

"I have fulfilled your command, Father!" I loudly praised these deceased throughout the night, in every possible way exalted them and attributed to them many virtues.

- And how did they show you their pleasure?

"No, teacher, they kept silence all the time, I did not hear a single word from them."

"It's very surprising, but then you do this: this night go there again and scold them until dawn as hard as possible." Then they will surely speak.

The next day the monk told:

"As soon as I reviled them, as soon as I did not dishonor them, I did not reproach them." But they still did not answer ...

Then the elder said:

"You stepped on the first step of the stairs to the angelic life." It is called obedience. The top of this life on earth, you will reach only when you become as indifferent to both resentment and praise, as these deceased.

Proverbs about the teacher and students can show the impossibility of positive changes if the listener does not have the desire to fulfill what he has heard.

Need for advice

Several monks came to the Monk Anthony and asked him to give them advice for saving the soul. The old man said to them:

- Do the gospel, live according to the commandments of the Savior, and if you hit on the right cheek, substitute the left.

The monks replied that they do not have the strength to do this.

"If you can not do this," the teacher continued, "then at least do not repay evil for evil.

But even this turned out to be unsuccessful. Then the old man said to them:

- If you can not do anything that I said, what else can I advise you? It only means that you need more prayers that will help your weakness, and not in councils.

And that everything said in this article does not remain sterile, as in the above story, at last here is another parable about the teacher and student.

Use the treasure right now.

The young monk turned to the teacher:

"Father, my heart is already cleansed of temptations and filled with love for the world." What will be the next step?

The elder took a disciple to a sick man for confession. After listening to the dying man, he asked him with his pupil:

"What is the trunk in the corner?"

"Clothes I never wore." I always thought that for this clothing you need some special reason, but as a result it smolder in this chest.

When they left, the elder said to the disciple:

"Remember the trunk." If in your heart there are treasures, use them on time, right now. Otherwise they will be lost.