An old woman lost her only son. The sad woman went to a clever man and asked, "Is there any way I can throw away my sadness?"
The clever man said to her. "Go and bring me a seed (种子) from a home that has never known sadness. I will use it to drive the sadness out of your life. "The woman went off at once to look for that magical seed.
First, she came to a beautiful house, knocked at the door, and asked politely, "Excuse me, I am looking for a home that has never known sadness. Is this such a place? It is very important to me."
They told her, "You've certainly come to the wrong place," and began to describe all the sad things that had recently happened to them.
The woman said to herself, "Who is able to help these people that have had such sadness like me?" She stayed to cheer them up before she went on looking for a home that had never known sadness.
But wherever she went, whether in the homes of the poor or the rich, she found one sad story after another. She became so busy helping other people that she forgot about looking for a seed that would magically end her own sadness. She even never realized that her helping others had driven the sadness out of her life.
