The Rain Is One, the Plants Grow Each in Their Own Way
Though one cloud sends down one rain, each grows according to its own nature.
Before the same teaching, the same chance, people grow differently — am I measuring that as superior and inferior?
📝Reflection
The rain from the sky shows no partiality. It falls equally on the great tree, the small grass, the healing herb. Yet receiving that one rain, the great tree grows great, the small grass small — each to the measure of its own vessel. In this parable I see the essence of teaching and of love. Good teaching falls like rain, without partiality. Only, each who receives it grows at a different pace, in a different shape. We often press, "Why have you not grown as much as that one?" But to press the small grass to become a great tree is the fault neither of the rain nor of the grass. Equality is not making all the same — it is moistening each alike, so each may grow according to its own nature.
🌱Apply It Today
When you find yourself measuring a child, a junior, or yourself against another today, ask: "Am I pressing grass to become a tree?" Under the same rain, growth differs for each.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
