Greed

Once upon a time, Henry and his wife Bloria lived in a small village. Henry sold milk and owned a cow pen with his wife. They were accustomed to caring for their cows and providing them with good food and treatment. Therefore, the cows produced high-quality milk, which made everyone in the village buy from him. His work profited well, but despite that, he wasn’t happy. He dreamed of buying a large house and expensive clothes. His wife said to him, “Greed won’t benefit you. We profit a lot, and we should be happy.” He said to her, “How can we be happy with a small house and the cow pen around us? The smell of cows is unbearable.” ...

The story of water that restores youth is one of the world’s wonderful children’s stories, collected and composed by Toshio Ozawa. The story of water that restores youth is a tale from old Japanese legends, or more precisely, it’s Japanese myths from ancient times that are taught to Japanese children until the end of the elementary stage. The story is told as follows: The husband and wife gathering firewood: Once upon a time, in ancient times, in the past era, in one of the countries, there was an old couple. One day, the husband went to gather firewood, but on that day, for some reason, he didn’t find good wood. So: ...

Once there was a greedy mouse who wanted to eat a lot. He saw a basket full of grains, and he was very happy to eat them. So he made a small opening in the basket, then crawled inside the basket through this opening. While he was inside the basket, he ate a lot of grains until he felt his stomach full, and he was very happy. At that time, the greedy mouse wanted to get out of the basket. He tried to get out through that small opening, but he couldn’t because his stomach had become extremely full due to the abundance of food he had eaten. He tried again, but he couldn’t get out. So the greedy mouse began to cry. While a rabbit passed by him at that time, he heard him crying loudly and asked him: “Why are you crying, my little one?” ...

One day, two brothers lived in the same village. The elder was extremely rich, while the younger was extremely poor. Both spent their money extravagantly. As for the other, he didn’t have the power of his day, nor did he have suitable clothes to wear, and his family was almost dying of hunger in view of the tightness of his condition. One day, he decided to seek help from his brother and said to him: “My brother, my children are suffering from hunger. Lend me some money to buy food for them.” The brother said: “You ask me for money always, and I won’t give you anything. Go away from here.” The younger brother felt sadness because of this and left. On his way, he met an old man carrying a bundle of firewood. He said to him: “Wait, you seem tired. I will help you.” He said to him: “Thank you.” Then he said to him: “What’s wrong with you? You seem extremely tired.” ...

It is told that in ancient times, in the old days, there was a great king of prestige and power named King Al-Nu’man, son of King Hassan. King Al-Nu’man was king of a great, rich country, filled with all kinds of blessings and colors. He had everything that came to mind and everything that didn’t come to mind. But he was neither happy nor at peace of mind. Why? Because he had heard of something strange that existed only in the Land of Wonders! ...

There was a poor man who lived with his wife. One day, the man and his wife found a beautiful goose. To their good fortune, when they took this goose, they found it laid eggs. But its eggs were completely different from the eggs of other birds, as it laid a golden egg every day. The couple was happy with this fortune, but they believed they would only become rich after a long time. ...

In the season of spring, there was a locust loving the flowers and their fruits, and there was a small active ant loving to work very much. In every morning, the bees used to wake up on the sound of the locust in love and near the tree, so he would stay away from his house until the time of eating, to eat some of the flowers or the leaves, then he would return to his house to eat again until the time of sleep. ...

One day, while there was a dog wandering lost in the shade of a tree, and a donkey carrying a load was passing, and suddenly a donkey fell on the way, and a large piece of meat fell from it without anyone seeing. The hungry dog approached the piece of meat and ate from it a little, then he decided to hide the rest of the meat for the coming days. ...

Satisfaction is a great blessing that many people do not enjoy, and it is from the gifts of God Almighty to His righteous servants, so if the servant is satisfied with God’s decree and fate for him and His provision, God is satisfied with him and increases His blessings to him, for everything with Him is by His measure. But not everyone enjoys and turns away from that great blessing, for we see many complaining about their condition and not looking at the blessings that are between their hands, so they begin to complain from what God has provided them with, and make their life miserable by themselves and torment themselves over what God has provided them with, so God afflicts them with its consequences, and perhaps the state of satisfaction was the condition of this Saeed. ...

There was a rabbit accustomed always at every time to eat food, he was always hungry and was accustomed to eat continuously and sleep a long time, so he ate and ate and ate. He consumed food throughout the night and throughout the day, but he was never satisfied and was never content with what he ate. One day passed, and all the groups of rabbits went to the green fields and consumed food quickly, all except the greedy rabbit. One of the rabbits said to him eat your food quickly, otherwise the owner of the cage will come and stone us with stones. The rabbit said to him please leave me to eat more and fill my stomach, then I will return. The greedy rabbit continued to consume food, and the other rabbit said the owner of the cage has come, so he replied to him everything is good, he has not reached the cage that we work in yet. ...