Once a man was walking on a mountain when he found a cave strange to it. He took the treasure to explore it, and inside the cave was a type of strange delicious food. When the man saw them, he entered the cave and remained there for his watch. From that day, the man was forgetting his precious treasures in the cave, and was avoiding any person who looked in that he was rich deceiving about his position and telling him his secrets.
He was watching the treasures of his cave continuously, and not wanting anyone to know him, and for fear of thieves he was guarding the cave all night. The man had prepared his mind for watching the cave to the degree that he did not eat or drink for a long period. And he passed many days on the same case until he was on the point of death and his life was ended.
One day when he could not move at all, he realized that his thinking and what was going to his mind to this bad ending was without benefit. For he realized now that watching his treasure was without benefit and was not good for the life, so before his death by a little he decided to share the almonds with others. So he went to the cave to get a handful of almonds, but he discovered that the cave was almost empty!
And all he was able to find was a small handful. There were only two light almonds in it. So the man went and left the cave, and determined to give it to the first person who would come to him. After a little, a close woman neighbor came to him, so he gave her the almonds and was happy with that greatly, and said to the woman: I was going to give you many almonds, oh my dear one, but I don’t know where you hid them, so all that remained of them.
So the woman said to him: Are you sure there is nothing else? So the man nodded his head and pointed to the cave and said to her: You can look there. In reality there were no almonds left there, for the woman had seen some golden works, so the woman neighbor took the almonds and the sharp knife and went out happy. In the meantime, an old man came and asked the man what he was doing there.
The man said to him: Oh man of luck! Only a little while ago I gave the woman the four small almonds remaining from the almonds I was guarding. So the man old and wise said to him: Are you sure there is nothing else? So the man showed him the cave and they found there a box full of almonds and some of the golden works. The man was shocked by what he saw, but the man old and wise confirmed to him saying: Congratulations, a person like yourself from deceiving this cave. For they kept watching their lives for this cave until the end arrived for them to realize that there is nothing here.
So the man said with surprise: So why do these almonds appear and disappear? The man old and wise said: This is the magic cave, it has many hearts like your heart. When someone discovers them, he fills the cave with the almonds they bring with them.
But at a time later when everyone was thinking to themselves for the watching of the almonds, their hearts would begin to empty in the usual way to fill them was to fill your heart with all that is good, as he did with giving this last handful to the woman. Did you not feel improvement because you did that? As the cave was filled again afterwards, and thus the man understood that it is better to share than to keep things for yourself. And from that day, with the grace of the cave and the man old neighbor, the man became generous and kind.
The story is translated from: The Cave of the Thousand Treasures