Short story: An accidental death, probably was not really an accident

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The old Zen master, Lusterk Ripcoske, had had a bad day for a Zen master to have, as he had lost one of his best students, drowned by misadventure in the nearby river, when he, and some fellow students, had been larking around there, and this student, had gotten his foot caught in a rock crevice under the water, after jumping in to the deep water, and landing feet first right on the bottom, of the river, where his foot then became lodged firmly, and not being able to extricate himself from this dilemma, he drowned. Another student, who had been there with the student who had drowned, said this to the Zen master, in an effort to cheer him up. "The emptiness of any day is related to the emptiness in your heart." "Fill it with the joy of the Holy spirit living in you as God in you, and your day will be full of joy then too." "Life is largely lived unlived, if not lived with God." "Let what happened be happened, as it cannot now be changed." "We all have a homing instinct, intrinsically linking us to God." "We just do not know when this instinct will be strong enough to bring us home, as it did here." The old master looked at his student, and replied: “You speak the truth, my lad, but for me, the truth still will not save that drowned student. Accidents of fate are part of truth too, but it is harder to see into them the reason for them happening. I guess that student was being called to somewhere else, and so we have to let be what is, as you have surmised too." "'Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.'" "Plutarch, (46 to 120) that old Greek philosopher, said this," chipped in the student. "Perhaps, this also means that accidents jump us over any resistance, because we were blocking our own life up with such resistance. We are then given another go at life, elsewhere." The old master smiled, as he said his last word, on this: "It is only love, and God, that can save any of us from our fate, that will always come about, when we follow our mind, which is fate based, whereas our heart is faith-based." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Picture: The Zen student could not be saved. He drowned.