Whatever you call this narrative genre, parables or philosophical stories, the meaning will be the same. Short stories filled with parables will be of interest to both adults and children.
What is this
A person studies all his life, and philosophical parables about the meaning of life will always be relevant, because no one has yet answered exactly the question of why we came to this earth, which means that any answer will be interesting. Such stories exist among different peoples of the world. A parable with a philosophical meaning is found in Indian, Christian, Jewish culture and others. Topics are varied. Philosophical parables can be about love, about life, about relationships between people, about children. They teach, give instructions, but at the same time do not directly indicate what is good or bad. A person himself comes to a certain conclusion after he has been read or listened to philosophical parables.
People or animals
In this article we will look at some of them. Most often there are parables about life and wisdom. They can be short or have an impressive volume. Some of them are about famous characters, for example,Solomon, Nasreddin. Others are about fictional characters and events, often with animals as characters. These are philosophical tales. One of them tells about a woman and a chicken. The woman was so greedy that she began to force-feed her bird so that it would lay more eggs. As a result, the chicken suffocated from the fact that a large amount of grain in the throat blocked her access to oxygen, and died. And the woman was left with nothing. The hero of another fairy tale was the monster Azhdah.
Allegorical meaning
Such philosophical parables can be embarrassing. It seems that everything is clear, and if you think about it, you can penetrate deeper into the meaning of the story and draw interesting conclusions. But we must think not only about the parable, but about which aspects of our life it affects, what it condemns and what it approves. Try to understand the Dagestan parable about Azhdah. One day, it says, Ajaha captured the source in Avaria and did not let anyone near it, killing the daredevils with his tail. On the palisade around his new palace hung the heads of the men he had killed. This lasted for quite a long time, until a daredevil grew up in one village, who swore to liberate his country. He mounted a horse and rode to the palace to the monster. Azhdha rightly believed that human strength would not be enough to defeat him. Therefore, at first he asked a question, the answer to which could save his life. He showed the brave young man two women. One of them was very beautiful, and the other had an ordinary appearance. The monster asked me to guess which woman he likes moreTotal. The resourceful young man replied that the one that Azhdah likes the most. It was true, and the monster died. This is a parable about the choices we make. Or something else?
Philosophical parables about life
They tell about the various situations in which a person finds himself, and give wise advice on how to respond correctly without harming your personality. One of them tells how one man sailed on a boat alone. One day he closed his eyes and started meditating. Suddenly, some strange boat pushed his ship. He opened his eyes full of anger at the man who could not steer his boat, but saw that it was empty. This taught him not to react in any way to the fact that strangers are trying to hurt or offend him. He immediately remembered that empty boat and calmed down.
A parable about not giving up
This parable allegorically tells that you should not give up, and if life is a struggle, then fight to the end. Its main character was a donkey that fell into a well. He was very scared and started screaming. The owner decided that it would not be possible to save the animal and that he should be left in the well. At the same time, he decided to fill the well with earth, because he still did not give water. Neighbors came to the rescue, picked up shovels and began to fill the well with earth. The donkey began to scream, anticipating an imminent death. However, he soon fell silent. People crowded at the edge of the well and saw that the donkey was shaking off the earth from his back and crushing it with his hooves. So the smart animal was saved from captivity. manypeople should learn from him resilience and love of life.
Solomon's Ring
A parable about how the king received a lesson from the court sage. Initially, Solomon was very irritable. He reacted to everything that happened, and often because of this he lost his peace and patience. Therefore, he had to seek the help of a sage so that he would teach him to remain calm. He gave him a ring with an inscription, reading which Solomon had to control his passions. She said: "It will pass!". For a while, this method helped Solomon, but once his anger was so great that even the ring could not calm him down. Then he took it off to throw it away, but then he noticed that on the inside there was also an inscription "This too shall pass." He never took off his ring again and learned to control his emotions.
Two brothers
Often parables tell us about worldly wisdom. For example, the story of two brothers who were born in the same family. One of them became a professor, and the second - an ordinary worker. But when the family got together, the professor listened with great interest to the reasoning of his brother, who was wise and reasonable. The professor's wife was unhappy with this fact. She believed that the worker could not teach her husband anything. But he objected that he was just a professor of botany, and not of all life. This parable teaches us to respect the wisdom and life experience of our loved ones, even if they have not reached great heights.
Four wives
This parablethrough the images of people tells about what our life consists of and how we should relate to what happens in it. It speaks of a sultan who has four wives. Most of all he loved the fourth of them, the youngest and most attractive. She also loved her husband and gratefully accepted his gifts and caresses. The third wife was very beautiful, and the Sultan also loved her. He often boasted of her to the rulers of other countries and was afraid of losing her. The second wife was very smart. She was an adviser to the Sultan and helped him in solving his problems. But the Sultan did not love his first wife. She was old, he did not choose her himself, but inherited from his dead brother. She loved the Sultan, always tried to please him and do everything possible for the prosperity of the country and her husband.
One day the Sultan fell ill and felt the approach of death. Then he decided to invite his beloved wives to accompany him to the realm of the dead. The first, second and third wives categorically refused to do this, promising only to bury him with all honors. The Sultan was surprised and distressed by their answers. But suddenly the fourth wife spoke. She promised to be with the Sultan where he would go after his death. Then he noticed that she grieved the most and looked exhausted. Then the Sultan regretted that he had not loved her before and did not pay due attention to her.
So we, summed up in this parable, have four wives. Our body is the first wife. No matter how we take care of him, after death we will leave a mortal shell. Career, we alth, position in society - this is the third wife, when we leave for another world,it will all be different. Relatives are our second wife. No matter how much they care about us during their lifetime, after our death they will remain in this world. The soul, to which, as a rule, we devote little time during life, will be with us to the very end. And it depends only on us how it will look at the end of our journey.
Signs on the path of man
Finally, we will tell a parable that can be read to a child. She teaches us to be attentive to those signs that we pay little attention to as we go through life. Dean is a little boy walking down the road. For no apparent reason, he fell, hit hard and hurt his leg. Then he began to resent why God did not save him from falling. Meanwhile, a poisonous snake crawled out of the road ahead. The boy took a different road and got into a thunderstorm. He decided to take cover under a tree, but, heading towards it, he fell again and hit himself. Again he expressed his indignation that God did not protect him, and turned onto another path. And at this time, lightning struck the tree trunk, under which he was going to take cover, and it caught fire. On the third road, he walked very carefully, relying only on himself. But he still fell and this time broke his arm. Here already he lost all faith and walked through the mountains. It was a good thing, because the third road led to a cliff. Climbing the mountain, the boy saw a poisonous snake on the first road, a scorched tree on the second road, and an abyss at the end of the third road. Then he realized that God protected him every time, and faith returned to him.
Any failure can become a success. An accident mayto prevent the big trouble that lay ahead. To make your life path smooth and calm, study philosophical parables - a source of experience and wisdom.
