A son grows frustrated with his elderly father who can no longer work and thinks him useless. He builds a fine coffin and tricks his father into lying in it, intending to push him off a cliff. As he does so, he hears a knock from inside and his father requests that if he must die, to save the nice coffin for his son's future use when he grows old. The son realizes his terrible mistake and asks forgiveness, helping his father home instead.

1. Story To
Reflect Upon
99
The Dog By Anonymous
Once I was feeling so down in my life that I felt like
there was no hope. Until...... one day during my office
break I was sitting alone in the garden area near my
office building. I was knee deep in my misery -
thinking about all the wrong things going wrong in my
life. I sat there for quite some time until, I saw a dog
with one of his one legs missing. I noticed that the dog
got tired after covering a few steps but he kept at it.
That dog was doing his best to reach his destination in
spite of his challenge.
Even more amazing was the look on that dog's face and
his animated strides. He didn't feel sorry for himself!
He was living his life.
Suddenly, a smile came on my face, as a thought
occurred to me. "Life is not about whining or pitying
over what is missing in your life. It's about carrying on
with what is available to you. If you get tired along the
journey, simply take rest, but do not give up. I'm
grateful for just an amazing source of inspiration.

2. Story To
Reflect
Upon 100
The Coffin
There lived an old farmer and his son in a village close to the
blue mountains. Both tilled the land together and sold the grains
to buy goods they needed.
Over time, the farmer grew old and could no longer work. So he
sat on a stone by the edge of the river
and did nothing all day.
The son who went to work all day thought to himself, “He sits
here all day doing nothing. He has become useless.”
The next day the son made a coffin of fine wood and asked his
father to lie down in it. He dragged the coffin towards the edge
of the cliff intending to push the coffin over the cliff.
Soon he heard a knock from inside the coffin,
“Knock, knock”.
The son opened the coffin and looked inside.
“I know you’re going to push me off the cliff. But I have one
request. Throw me over the cliff but save this nice coffin, for
your sons may need to use it when you grow old.”
The son realized his terrible ‘sin’ and begged for forgiveness
from his old father.
He got the father out of the coffin
and helped his father walk home.
Reflection:
Do unto others what you’d want them to do unto you. Before you
say or do anything, ask yourself if you’d be happy if you
underwent the same thing. Earn good karma in life by helping
others and making life better for others around you. Or your bad
karma will come back to haunt you. Just because something is
old, it has not lost its use.
It’s merely served its purpose.