posted June 19, 2007 11:24 AM         

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.
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Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"

posted June 19, 2007 12:16 PM         

"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."

posted June 19, 2007 02:06 PM         

THANKS for SHARING that!!!

posted June 20, 2007 05:53 PM         

Just what I needed for a friend of mine! Aha! So eloquently put!