A king once went to a master (大师).He wanted to become more powerful than other
__1__kings.He sat in front of the master and__2__telling him the purpose of his__3__.
The master listened__4__to the king.
He then told the king to go to the__5 where a rose plant and a cypress (柏树) plant
were growing side by side.He told the king,"They are your__6__.They can teach you what
you want to__7__."
The king went into the garden,and__8__the two plants but could not__9__what he
could learn from them.He went back to the master and asked,"What do you__10__,master?
I am not able to understand what and how these plants will teach me."
The master took the king to the plants and__11__,"This cypress plant has been next to the
rose plant for so many years.Never once has it wanted to become a rose plant.__12__,the rose
plant has never wanted to become a cypress plant.If man had been the cypress plant,he would
have__13__himself with the rose and felt jealous (忌妒的) at the__14__that the beautiful rose
plant was getting from all the people.__15__,if man were the rose plant,he would have__16__
the cypress plant enviously (羡慕地) thinking how__17__ the plant was without the__18__
of being disturbed by people all day!Both of the plants grew very well because they__19__all
their energy for their own__20__instead of using it to compete with the other.