This is the story of a young man who wanted to be Zen and walked the roads of the kingdom in search of a Master .... without finding ...
But while I was looking for, without discouragement ever dreamed: "zen ... I'll be walking through the clouds ... to dominate the air ..." It
one day found their way to a poor woman who happened to hear your thoughts. It was a bitter young, ambitious and unscrupulous, so artfully presented himself as someone who could teach him to be Zen and walk in the clouds, and dominate the air.
to convey course such a secret, requiring replacement of 7 years of service.
Young meekly accepted and when the seven years, humbly approached the woman and asked him to reveal the secret.
Well, she did not know at all but had gotten used to having a servant so quiet and efficient (he only thought about the perfection)
To get by, invented the excuse that it was not yet time, their soul was not purified enough in the service ... if you still interested in being zen, and walking through the clouds, and dominate the air ... should serve for seven years.
So it was. Also happened that the denial of secrecy was repeated three times.
The young man became old ... was not so good server, because of wear suffered.
was no longer a help, and soon to be a burden. For
poisonous black heart of the abuser, the agreement came to an end.
Determined to get rid of it without any mercy, after 21 years of slavery of the apprentice, had no better idea to invent a ritual. He said that the secret would be revealed if he could climb alone to the top of the tallest tree in the park.
The cheating husband pleaded for the fate of the old slave, but his claim was late, greasy cowardice and useless after so many years of cruelty.
He also, with the complicity of silence, had benefited from this situation.
But the desire of the learner was unyielding, and there was, pale and trembling, climbing the branches with difficulty, like a bird too tired.
When he reached the top .... there where the wind rocked it like a dry leaf, looked down looking for explanations.
- " You let go of the branches!" - Cried the woman
- " do not want to die like that innocent" - husband groaned, covering her face with her hands.
The apprentice did not think twice and spread his hands gnarled twigs punished nearly transparent which clung. He hesitated only a moment, blinked ... Then I discovered with surprise that I was able to walk among the clouds ... and dominate the air ...
With lazy joy began to walk away, gently tearing the silence of panic that had gripped the throats of his two guards.
followed by the sky getting lighter and smaller.
fully diluted Before the clouds, they say he turned and said:
"Thank you both for this wonderful school ..."
And here's the only secret: that there is no magic, no secret that the will makes us learn lessons from the toughest situations and examples of the most execrable ... .