After years of searching, a seeker
was told to go to a cave and in the cave would be a
well. Look
into the water and ask the well, “What is truth?”
The well will reveal the secret of wisdom to you.
The well tells the seeker to go to the
crossroads.
At the intersection, he sees three shops:
one with all kinds of metal, the other with all
kinds of wood, and the other with all kinds of metal
string. As
the seeker looks at all the shops, he notices nothing,
sees nothing, hears nothing, but only these three shops.
None of this seemed to be related to the issue of
truth. He went back to the well, and was
told by the well, “In the future, you will understand.”
Well, the seeker felt betrayed and kept his
journey looking for the truth.
Years passed by. Then one night, from the distance,
he heard a sitar, making beautiful music.
As he came closer, he noticed how the music
master played the sitar, how his hands moved and played
each note.
He saw the love that was in the musician’s hand.
He saw what a beautiful instrument is was.
All of a sudden, the seeker burst out with joy
and laughter, he jumped up and down, and howled to the
top of his voice. What he had noticed was that the
sitar was made of the same wood, metal, and strings that
he had seen years before at that crossroads, at those
stores that he thought to be without particular
significance. Moral:
We have all we need.
Our task is to assemble it all.
Nothing is meaningful as long as we perceive only
separate fragments.