Zen Story: When the one becomes many, the many should not neglect themselves within the one.

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The Zen master, Kredik Zexofree, claimed that he was naturally in harmony with all around him. He grabbed onto nothing, and he held onto nothing. He said that all was ungraspable. And yet, nothing was out of his reach. He loved all, and all loved him. He saved none of his thoughts, but thought them all anew as needed. He claimed that he was nameless, and formless, in his place in it all. He was empty to himself, but full of emptiness, just the same. Emptiness formed him, but his form then became empty. The Master was giving a discourse about his way of living to his students. Here is some of what he said: "You can add nothing to real emptiness, just as you can take nothing away from real fullness." "Dust only gathers on a false fullness, and only emptiness can clean it off again." (Now to some people, this might all sound to be gobbledygook.) "Love is of course never full of itself, but empties its fullness in you." "We must love, and let love." "Love is one in all, but do not cling onto it in our self, or we will change it." "We need to let love be itself in ourselves." "Let love lighten your life, and do not let the piles of heavy dust of thought, cover it over." Then, as the master finished speaking this discourse, to his assembled students, a young boy walked past him. He had wandered into the compound from outside, and was the son, of somebody who lived nearby. He pointed at the old Zen Master, and said to him: "Why are you so fat?" The Zen master had no answer to this question, and bowing low to the boy, he said: "I am fat, because I am fat, and yet, I should not be fat too." "I have until now missed the most important point of Zen. Being in harmony with all, means that you must be in harmony with yourself too." "Two come about because of One, but we should not attach ourselves to that One, and so neglect the one that the One has made for us to experience him within." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Picture: Why are you so fat? We always know that we are fat. We have tried to fill ourselves with more than our own share of oneness. We are greedily attached to it. We need truthfulness, and humility, to achieve real oneness, not a greedy grasping of it, in whatever way we can get out hands on it.