Oct 1, 2009
Change
There’s a story about a doctor in a period of war.
Everytime he heals someone, another one is getting hurt. After contemplating, he think that there is no use for him to heal them, because wounded soldier is like non stopping flow of water. What he did is just a vain.
Then, he stopped being a doctor and start his journey as a hermit.
Someday, he met a Zen Master, and he told him about his past.
Then, he ask the Zen Master, “Why should I become a doctor if they are keep getting hurt all the time?”
The Zen Master gave him simple answer : “It’s because you’re a doctor.”
Upon hearing that response, he feel enlighten. Then he made decision to become a doctor again.
Some of you may get confused why just a simple answer can change someone’s decision?
Let me give you a simpler analogy.
If you feel hungry, what would you do? The most reasonable answer is to eat something. By eating something, do you think that you will never get hungry again? You keep eating and you keep hungry all the time, is that mean that you’ll stop eating?
Of course not… haha
Everything in this life is changing. You can’t get away form change, therefore the first lesson for us is to learn to accept change. If you try to avoid change, then you’ll keep suffer all the time.
Accept change, look at everthing as they are, and ultimately, find the way to free yourself from unstopping circle of birth and death.
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