Chinese Bamboo Tree

It seems that this tree when planted, watered, and nurtured for an entire growing season doesn’t outwardly grow as much as an inch. Then, after the second growing season, a season in which the farmer takes extra care to water, fertilize and care for the bamboo tree, the tree still hasn’t sprouted. So it goes as the sun rises and sets for four solid years. The farmer has nothing tangible to show for all of his labor trying to grow the tree.

Then, along comes year five.

Suddenly , In the fifth year its seed finally sprouts and the bamboo tree grows up to eighty feet in just one growing season! Or so it seems….

Did the little tree lie dormant for four years only to grow exponentially in the fifth? Or, was the little tree growing underground, developing a root system strong enough to support its potential for outward growth in the fifth year and beyond? The answer is, of course, obvious. Had the tree not developed a strong unseen foundation it could not have sustained its life as it grew.

[........... Farmers growing other trees got results within one season & they all laughed at him.They called him fool,idiot & also advised him to quit.He just ignored all that & continued taking care of his bare ground for 4 years & in the 5th year, miraculously it became 80 feet in just One week alone....... ]


Courtesy :
https://parentalwisdom.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/the-chinese-bamboo-story-%E2%80%93-a-lesson-in-patience/

When the inferior man hears the Way, he laughs at it loudly. If he did not laugh, it would not be fit to be the Way - TAO