Short story: The Zen master who analysed handwriting

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The old Zen master, Rechard Zerraski, had an an usual method of vetting new students, who wanted to study in his monastery. He would get each prospective student to write him a short story, involving a koan, and then he would evaluate the submission, to se if it worthied the writer to take the next step, and enter a Zen monastery. He would study the style of the writing, to see if it was too descriptive, in an unbalancing way, or if it was written too actively, without any rest points in it too. He would check if it was written from the ego, or from the heart, of the student. Also, he would then examine the actual style of penmanship, of the student's handwriting too. He would notice the speed at which the writing had been done, to see how much thought, and inspiration, had been given to the writing. He would take notice too of the size of the lettering, the spacing of the words, and their allocation to the page, if a margin was left on the page. He could ascertain from his in-depth analysis of the writing, if rationality, or inspirational intuition, was being used in the writing. He knew whether the writing was being done from a heart of love, or from a fixed mindset alone. He only wanted heart students, and he left out from accepting all of those students who wrote from their minds alone. Personality is seen through handwriting, and everybody writes differently than from anyone else. Everything about as displays who we are to the world, and the eyes of a master can pick up these outposts coming from us, and so determine fairly easily just want type of a person we are. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Our writing can reveal much about our inner character.