CHANGING ONESELF
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling
water,
it will leap out right away to escape the danger.
But, if you put a frog in a kettle that is filled with
water that is cool and pleasant,
and then you gradually heat the kettle until it starts boiling,
the frog will not become aware of the threat until it is too late.
The frog's survival instincts are geared towards detecting sudden changes.
This is a story that is used to illustrate how people
might get themselves into terrible trouble.
This parable is often used to illustrate how humans have to be careful
to watch slowly changing trends in the environment, not just the sudden
changes. Its a warning to keep us paying attention not just to obvious
threats but to more slowly developing ones.
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STORIES AND TALES
- The Story of the Hummingbird
- The wolf you feed
- Following or not
following
- Stones, pebbles and sand
- Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters
- Grain of sand
- White
Birds and Black Birds
- Mexican fisherman, American
fisherman
- Rebuilding the world
- The boiled frog