STOP BEING A GLASS; BECOME A LAKE

An unhappy young man once came to an old master and told he had a very troubled life and asked for a solution.

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man “You put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.”

The young man did as was instructed. “How does it taste?”  the Master asked.

“Terrible,” the young man said and spat it out.

The Master laughed quietly 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; then the young man swirled a handful of salt into the lake.

The old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”

As he drank it from the river, the Master asked, “How does it taste?”

“Good!” remarked the man.

“Do you taste the salt?” asked the Master.

“No,”  said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man 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. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”

Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”