Crooked Tree

The essence of our practice is to watch intention and examine the mind. You must have wisdom. Don't discriminate. Don't get upset with others if they are different. Would you get upset at a small crooked tree in the forest for not being tall and straight like some others? That would be silly. Don't judge other people. There are all varieties. No need to carry the burden of wishing to change them all. If you want to change anything, change anything, change your ignorance to  wisdom.

Hen or Rooster?

Teaching people with different levels of understanding is very difficult. Some people have certain set of ideas. You tell them the truth and they say it's not true: "I'm right, you're wrong!" There's no end to this. If you don't let go there will be suffering. It's like the four men who go into the forest and hear the rooster crowing. One of them wonders if it is a rooster or a hen. Three of them decide it's a hen, but the curious one insists it's a rooster. "How could a hen crow like that?" he asks. They answer, "Well, it has a mouth, doesn't it?" They argue and get really upset, but in the end they are all wrong. Whether you say a rooster is like this, a hen cries like that. This is how we get stuck in this world! Actually if you just say that there's really no hen and rooster, then that's the end of it.

End (Herbal Medicine)