Short Story: The old Zen master's dream

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The old Zen master, Ogretha Huerzoltte, was getting old. He was thinking often about how long he had left to live in this life. And then, one night, he had a dream. He dreamt that he met up with his old Zen master, who had died many years ago, but who he had loved dearly, and still sorely missed too. Ogretha had succeeded him as the head of this Zen monastery. The old master said to him: "Death is always ready for you, but are you ready for it?" "Life is not about life. It is about what you give to life, and about what you takeaway from that life." "Have you given your all to life?" "Have you learnt all you can from this life of yours, as yet?" His old Zen master then said something about life and death that astounded Ogretha. He said that life takes nothing from death, but that death gives itself, its all to life. Death expends itself to death, and so only lives once in life, in each person's life, or it should do. We should never be afraid of death, and give it life before its time comes to give itself to us, in our life. Ogretha woke up, and made this note to himself: Dreams bring a clearer clarity to life, and show us to ourselves. My old master was really a part of myself, telling myself, that death is our friend in life, not our enemy. Death is a Zen master of life too. Death opens blocked doors, unless we have already opened them ourselves, beforehand. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Zen is not a dream until we see that it is. Life is a dream, that death awakens to itself, unless we waken ourselves beforehand.