An old Zen story
chatting with a friend reminded me of an old Zen story that once read, and that beyond its philosophical about the cycles, life, death and other:
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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After tea, while a student was washing his cup zen and his teacher, the teacher's cup slipped from his hands, fell down and broke. The student became very upset and he communicated to his companions, far to downplay the matter, scared you most telling:
"The cup has broken, was revered by the teacher. It was very old and very valuable"
The student did not know how to tell his teacher without being punished, so did you go to your teacher and say the following:
"Master, why do we die?"
To which the teacher replied,
"It's natural, life after death comes"
The disciple said:
"But Master, do not can anything last forever?"
to what the teacher said again
"Everything has its cycle, things start and then end. All that lives dies"
At that hour the disciple took the pieces of the broken cup and showed the teacher saying
"Master, the cup, his time had come"
I always amused by how the student knew the answer, asked the question so that the teacher was ready to respond to what was coming, so ... who was the student whom the teacher?
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