Short story: The deaf Zen master

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The renowned Zen master, Dogon Wetzeslki, was a deaf Zen master. He listened well though, with the ears of his heart, always open to all. The teacher/student relationship was hardly affected, as he always so warmly embraced his student with his words, which seemed to have always spoken, and answered, exactly what was in the student's mind too. He would say of this, that within his heart returns the truth of his student, so when he listened to his heart, he heard the truth of his student too, and so he was just giving their own truth back again to them. Everything returns to the heart, love, truth, life. Everything leaves the heart, but we should ensure its return, by loving life, ourselves, and our neighbours too. Life is about mining our heart for love, not for mining the dirt of our minds. "Deafness is not in my ears, because of the hearingness of my heart. I listen with my heart," he would say. "A lot of people listen, but hear nothing. We must hear with our hearts, as well as our minds." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The deaf Zen master listened with his heart.