Be a Lake

[Cheddad]

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Once I was flipping a Java (programming) book, suddenly I was astonished by the deep meaning of a phrase by the book authors, even though they did not mean it given the book’s orientation and the religion of its authors. Here I quote it for you, the phrase says: "The lifetime of a variable is confined to its scope". The authors were discussing the public and private routines and the declared values within when programming. I see this phrase from a different angle as every one of us is a variable in this life and confined to his/her scope regardless you like computer programming or not.



Now, let us see what “Be a lake” would mean.


Post II:
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Be a Lake

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. “Awful,” spat the apprentice. The Master chuckled 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 and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.” As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the Master asked, “How does it taste?” “Good!” remarked the apprentice. “Do you taste the salt?” asked the Master. “No,” said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, 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!”


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