Tolerance

Tolerance
“Tolerance” : Its our permissive attitude towards the practices and views of others which conflict with ours.
When we say how much tolerance do we have, It indicates “how much of something we can stand-stress”,

For a true human being tolerance should be the capacity to accept differences, respect one another and stand up for right opinion.

We must know that there is a lot of difference in being Tolerant and being Ignorant as being ignorant is having a negative attitude towards others.



Eg When I say I am tolerating his mischief’s this means that I may not agree with all of their beliefs but I accept some of them and may implement some of them, while being ignorant points to that Since I don’t agree with any of their beliefs I am not going to react.



We need to know the true meaning of tolerance which leads to compassion and truthfulness among people around us.



At times we can solve even unavoidable circumstances via this virtue,



Would like to share a very short story on this :



There was very mischievous boy who used to stay in Hostel. His warden was quiet aware of all his activities but didn’t criticized him ever.

One day he wanted to go out and play but the hostel walls were very high, so he took a bench , climbed over it and crossed the wall.

Hostel’s warden was on round that night and he noticed the bench adjacent to wall. He got a fair idea of what would have happened.

He decided to wait for the boy in order to teach him certain lessons. The warden heard someone’s footsteps on the other side of wall, so he moved the bench, and squatted next to the wall with both hands holding his knees. The student thought the black shadow was the bench he put there. He jumped down and felt that what he landed on was unexpectedly soft, so he was frightened. He turned around and saw that it was the warden, so he quickly ran to his room. He was lying in bed and waiting for the warden to come enraged, and he could not sleep for the whole night. In the early morning class of the next day, the student felt restless in anticipation of being punished by the warden. The warden had a very solemn expression but did not bring up this matter. A few days passed, and the warden found that the boy was not so playful as before and studied harder. From then on the boy persevered, and reached great heights in his morale.



In this story, the warden did not use a simple and crude method of criticizing when he dealt with the mistake of the boy, but looked for chances to let the boy realize his shortcoming and correct his own behavior. Because of the warden's tolerant and ingenious actions, that boy was able to improve and become a great cultivator.

Rgds,
Gaurav