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A parable from the 1949 book by Peter Ouspensky “In Search of the Miraculous,” which was told to the author by the philosopher and mystic George Gurdjieff. They say that George Gurdjieff considered the parable of the wizard and the sheep one of his favorites and often told it to his students.
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In a clearing, among a huge forest, there lived a wizard who had a large flock of sheep. Every day he ate one sheep from the flock. The sheep caused the wizard a lot of trouble - they scattered throughout the forest, and he had to spend a lot of time catching one sheep and gathering the others back into the herd.
Of course, the sheep he was about to kill felt this and began to desperately resist, and its screams frightened the others. And then the wizard decided to come up with such a trick - he talked to each sheep in private, and suggested something to each.
To one he said:
“You are not a sheep, you are a person just like me. You have nothing to fear, because I only kill and eat sheep, but you are the only person in this herd and therefore are my best friend.”
The second he said:
“Why are you running away from me like other sheep. You are a lioness and you have nothing to fear. I only kill sheep, and you are my friend.”
To the third he inspired:
“Listen, you are not a sheep, you are a wolf. A wolf I respect. I, as before, will continue to kill one sheep from the flock every day, but the she-wolf, the wizard’s best friend, has nothing to fear.”
Thus, he spoke to each of the sheep and convinced each of them that she was not a sheep, but a completely different animal, which was different from all the other sheep in the flock. After this conversation, the behavior of the sheep completely changed - they grazed completely calmly and never ran into the forest again.
And when the wizard killed another sheep, they thought:
“Well, they killed another sheep, and I, the lion, the wolf, the man, the wizard’s best friend, have nothing to fear.”
And even the sheep he was killing stopped resisting.
He simply approached one of them and said:
“Oh, my best friend, we haven’t talked in a long time. Let's go to my yard. I need to consult with you about the flock of sheep.”
And the sheep proudly followed the wizard into the yard. And there he actually asked his best friend how things were going in the herd. The victim happily told him everything, and then the wizard killed her. Since death occurred instantly, the sheep did not have time to understand anything.
The wizard was very pleased - he highly raised the self-esteem of each of the sheep, as a result they stopped bothering themselves with thoughts about inevitable death, became less neurotic, enjoyed life and calmly nibbled grass, as a result of which their meat became much tastier.
For many years, the wizard easily managed a huge herd, and the most interesting thing is that the rest of the sheep began to help him - if some too smart sheep began to guess about the true state of things, then the rest of the sheep... well, that is, lions, people, wolves, the wizard's best friends, informed him about the strange behavior of this sheep, and the next day the wizard ate it with pleasure...
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