Be A Lake !!

Be A Lake !!

The old Master instructed the
unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink
it.
"How does it taste?" the Master asked.

"Awful," spat the
apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take
another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence
to the nearby lake and when the apprentice
swirled his handful of salt into
the lake, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water
dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How
does it
taste?"

"Good!" remarked the apprentice.

"Do you taste the salt?"
asked the Master.

"No," said the young man.

The Master sat beside
this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The pain of life is pure
salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the
same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it
into.
"So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge
your
sense of things ..... Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"