Short story: Fighting to try to win, only ever loses in the end. Love never needs to fight. Only fear fights back

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The Zen master, Herlick Verboski, was also a martial artist in the style of Kung Fu, named Crabfu, based on the sideways movements of a crab. It involved a lot of ground fighting, as they believed that keeping low allowed them to defend best. The Zen master had powerful hands, arms, and legs, and he would apply a crab hold on someone to restrain them, trapping them in a vice-like scissor grip, with his legs, as well as applying a choke hold, at the same time, from the rear. Many times, in those days, he was called to defend his monastery from marauding thugs, who wanted to loot them of their possessions, which included a golden Buddha statue, worth a lot of money. The master bit off more than he could chew one day though, as the old saying goes, if you take on a sword, it will kill you in the end. And so, a group of thugs, keen to loot the Monastery of its golden Buddha, never even bothered engaging the master in a fight; they simply shot him in the back, when he was strolling in the Monastery grounds, one day, with a bow, and an arrow; then they stole their booty, and got away with it too. We should be careful when we neglect the way of love to go the way of fear instead. Fear needs to defend itself, whereas love never does. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Never fear love, but allow love to be itself within you.