Short story: Zen was reflected in the pond, as much as the pond reflected Zen

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The Zen master, Joshura Zerbroski, walked past the pond, where his student was washing his feet, and he said. "Two feet, one pool." The student looked up, and smiled back at the master, replying: "Duality walks on two feet, not one." The master snorted, a loud, "Harrumph." "I am not your cow, yet you milk me." The student placed his hand in the pond and splashed upwards the water onto his master. "Yes, we are all cows. A person is not personal to himself, until he is personal to all. The root becomes the tree." the master said, and walked off again. Someone once said: "If we are whatever happens to us, nothing will ever happen that is not us, or a part of us." or, in other words: "Whatever happens is you happening to it, as much as it is it happening to you." Both the student and the master knew this, and they both liked to have some fun with each other, whenever they met each other, casually like this. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com We should not force ourselves, and our ideas, upon the world, and then the world won't force itself onto us either.