Once upon a time, a woman moved to a cave in the mountains to study with a guru. She wanted to learn everything there was to know. The guru supplied her with stacks of books and left her be to study.
Every morning he walke
d to the cave with his cane and visited the woman and asked her the same question: “Have you learned everything there is to know yet?”. Her answer, “No I haven’t” was always the same.
The guru would then strike her over the head with his cane.
For months this went on til one day the guru entered the cave and asked the woman the same question. The woman replied with the same answer. The guru raised his cane to hit her in the same way and she reached up ….and grabbed the cane to stop him.
Relieved to stop the daily battering but fearing reprecussion, the woman looked to the guru and the guru said, “Congratulations. You have graduated”
How is that the woman wondered.
“You learned you will never learn everything you there is to learn. And…you learned how to stop the pain.”
One small action can help us break free.
When we change. Everything else changes.
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