In the past, there was a very rich businessman. At his advanced age, he decided to give his family property to three children. However, before the division of the property, he let his three sons travel the world to do business.
Prior to departure, the wealthy man told his three children: “You come back here after a year and tell me what the noblest thing you have done. I do not want to spit the property, because take them together can make the next generation richer; only a year later, the child who can still do the noblest things can get all my property!”
One year has passed; three children came back in front of their father and reported what they received in a year. The biggest child said: “In my travels, I had met a stranger, and he trusted in me, even let me keep a bag of gold coins. Later, he unfortunately passed away. Finally I returned the intact gold to his family.” Father said: “You have done well, but honesty is the moral you should have, which cannot be called a noble thing!”
Then the second child said: “I travelled to a poor village, and then I saw a little beggar with old clothes unfortunately fell into the river, I immediately dismounted and jumped into the river to rescue the little beggar.” Father said: “You have done well, but saving people is your obligations, which cannot be called a noble thing, too!”
The youngest child hesitated to say: “I had an enemy; he was against me in every possible way. On several occasions, I almost died in his hands. In my travel, there was a night, and I rode alone on the cliff edge, but I found my enemy was sleeping beside the tree in the edge of a cliff. I just gently kicked, he would be able to fall off from the cliff, but I did not do so. I wake him up, so he continued walking. This is not a big deal.”
Father sternly said: “Child, you can help your own enemies, you have done the noble and sacred things. All my property will be yours.”
Love can produce love, hate can produce hate. Such people, who can use the generous heart to look at those hateful people, even can help each other be out of danger, is the noble man.
