GLASS OF WATER, OR LAKE?

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Salt

In your puerility as an adult or as a child, have you ever put so closely to your eyes a very small object, only to discover how big it grew. So big it covered your entire view. Like holding up a pencil close to your eyes while closing the other eye. That's the power of focusing on only one thing. It magnifies it.

Once an unhappy young man visited an old sage to tell him how very sad his life was, and needed a solution. 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.

"Terrible. Very salty." spat the young man.

GO FIND IT

"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." - Rosalia de Castro

Go Find It

A master was strolling through a field of wheat when a disciple hurried up to him and asked, “I can’t tell which the true path is. How do you find it? What’s the secret?”

“What does that ring on your finger mean?” The master asked, looking at the disciples finger.

“Why? My father gave it to me just before his death.”

“What's it made of? Let me have a look.” The master requested, obediently the disciple handed the master his ring. With all his might the master flung the ring into the middle of the vast field of wheat.

“Hey!" Screamed the disciple. "What in the world did you do that for? Now I have to stop everything else I was doing, and find that ring! It’s important to me!”

“When you find it, remember this, you would have answered the question you asked, by yourself. That is how you tell the true path: you go find it." The master said.

"Why?" The disciple asked.

"It's because the true path is more important than all the rest.”