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it's amazing how simple things go if you take away the story the simplicity of
what is without the personalized story around it how simple life then becomes
how simple this moment always is without imposing a story on it which is in any
case only there in the service of being right in the service of feeling superior
to the situation of the person in the service of enhancing you're always
deficient mind mate egoic sense of self
this is all madness dysfunction if you look at see what people how people
complicate their lives so for nothing for an illusory identity and then what
is left then is things are as they are at this moment people do what they do at
this moment beautifully illustrated in the story that you may have heard
perhaps through this mouth before in the story of the Zen master some of you
probably don't know it so but it's such a beautiful story the Zen master who had
a excellent reputation is a great teacher in a town in Japan and one day
was accused by the seventeen-year-old girl next door of being the father to
her unhoped Isles that had just been born
they parents asked who is the father they were shocked at she was giving
birth to a baby and she finally said it was the master next door I went to see
him nine months ago for a spiritual counseling session and then that's when
he did it to me and saw the parents the parents got extremely angry and started
telling everybody about it and they ran to the Zen master and with the baby and
put it there on his floor and said we know what you did you are responsible
now you look after the baby we don't want
anything to do with his baby anymore you take it you are the father we know it
all now the Zen master looked and listened and when they said you are the
father of this baby he said is that so and then they said yes and we are
leaving this baby here you can look after him is that so then they left the
Zen master lost his reputation nobody came to him for counseling sessions
anymore nobody wanted to hear him anymore all he
had there was the baby so that was the present moment he picked up the baby and
started getting some food sent sent off somebody to get some food and spend one
year mostly looking after the baby that was there a year later the girl was a
little bit more mature and cotton li confessed to her parents that the Zen
master was actually not the father it was the son of the butcher next door was
the father oh my god they ran to the Zen master and said please forgive us that
it's all a big mistake we've just realized that you are not the
father the Zen master looked so is that so and they said oh can we have the baby
back now please we now want the baby we look after it so
we want the baby back is that so okay and off they went this is an extreme
example of the good that comes only good when no story even stories that other
people try to impose on you is accepted no story is taken on and this end is an
extreme example of just it's a teaching story it's an extreme example of
nonreactive relationship to life and a non-story imposing relationship on
life they had their story they had to do they
had to make the Zen master wrong the Zen master refused any kind of story any
kind of he wasn't a victim of surveillance he didn't say I can't look
after this baby what do I do i I can't have spent my time look no he did what
was there to do at that moment so the baby had the best possible start in life
because for one year grew up in this energy field of great peace with the Zen
master but then the Zen master did not cling
did not have a clinging relationship to that he was able to in the moment let go
of the past and relinquished the baby and responded to this moment the parents
now he saw genuinely wanted the baby back he she was going to marry the
butcher's son so this is an example of the simplicity it may be a little bit
extreme you can differ you can of course say no
I am NOT the father there would be another possibility that is still not a
story no I'm not the father but if that is what you believe I cannot help it
again you are not buying into the story but if you had your own then people you
have a you have a story to counteract their story and so on and so on this
stuff out of which drama is made so look at your life and see
are you facing situations as they are are you or are you imposing and mixing
up for something hear stories on simply the simplicity that is always there in
this moment
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