Student to Sensai
"Where can I find?
Sensai finds it
Something more outlandish
Something outlandish and magical
Student asks sensai, "Sensai where do you find such things?
It's about time one of you asked. For countless days you ask me to bring you wonders, wonders of the mind and of the heart. Yet it takes you this long to wonder from where your mind and hearts desires reside? Each day you see me dart off in the sake diection, surely to return with that for which you have beckoned, and yet who among you would follow my path? You would rather satisfy your own life's quest at my pace than each of yours?"
He paused his rhetoric only to continue more mildly "It is not your fault, it has become your nature. From youth we elders have trained you to drink only what we have poured. We teach you to drink from the cup instead of directly from the well. We teach you to drink when we feel it is time but not to drink when you thirst. You know not how to thirst for water, if you knew how to thirst for water you would know what it is to thirst for life. When life trickles through your fingers because you do not have any means to grasp it forever, so you drink it with passion, lapping up every drop. When you have sucked each finger dry you spot some on the ground and you still thirst for life, only then will you bend your knees in true faith, giving yourself to the land with your very lips. Only then will you pray for rain clouds instead of complaining that too much rain has come down against you. These lessons you cannot learn from a cup.
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