The Simple Way, Part 48

The Simple Way
The Life & Teachings of Zhouzi
by Scott Bradley

At the morning assembly several monks offered parables expressing their experience of surrender in Trust, yet one in particular received the greatest applause.

“A man awoke to find himself swimming in a vast river whose banks he could not discern. The current was relentlessly strong and he feared greatly at being swept away to he knew not where. First he swam desperately in search of a shore, but the river was wider than he could ever conceive. He then swam against the current, but likewise to no avail. Then he grasped a snag, the branch of a tree, yet with the force of the current his arms pulsed with pain. And other flotsam, events of the river, soon knocked him loose and he continued down stream. All that remained was to go with the flow, and when he did so, nothing opposed him, and in harmonious trust his fate was assured.”

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