Zen Story: The fatness of his Zen, never made this Zen master fat though. He simply loved his food

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The Zen master, Fredrik Oposhela, was a bit fat, and overweight. His students used to nickname him, "fatso", behind his back. His students said to him, "Where is the Zen in the fat?" He answered them cheerfully, "The Zen is in the fat, when you are fat. The Zen is in the thin, when you are thin. There is nowhere where the Zen, is not." "At first, you will find no sweeter Zen than sticks to your own mind, but then, when you let go of that sweetness, you will also see that the Zen is in the sweetness, only because you put it there. Let the Zen be free, and let you be you, fat, or not fat." This Zen master's Zen was fat in its Zen, as was his body too. Afterword: Fatness comes from a stubbornness, inbuilt in the fatness of the mind, but the thinness does not come from the mind, but from your internal drive to be healthy. Allow this full play, drop your mind's wanting, and you will be thin. The Zen master was more concerned with his Zen than with his Zen body, and at some stage, he has to address this imbalance in his Zen. Zen to be full Zen, must work at all of its levels in you. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Was the Buddha really also a fatso, like this, or not?