"IS THAT SO?" ~ A ZEN STORY OF WISDOM
Are we willing to go beyond the ego and its blame games and accept and allow the process of life to flow through us?
The following is an interesting Zen story about the Zen Master Hakuin. Imagine how you would react if this was your story.
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back again.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
This beautiful story brings the grand reminder that when we align with our Divine Presence within, we get out of the need to prove or please others. Our actions are empowered with the wisdom of life, life flows through us freely and creates grand transformations to the world around us effortlessly.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
Are we willing to go beyond the ego and its blame games and accept and allow the process of life to flow through us?
The following is an interesting Zen story about the Zen Master Hakuin. Imagine how you would react if this was your story.
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back again.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
This beautiful story brings the grand reminder that when we align with our Divine Presence within, we get out of the need to prove or please others. Our actions are empowered with the wisdom of life, life flows through us freely and creates grand transformations to the world around us effortlessly.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
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