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Sunday, 25. May 2008, 22:33:59



In a temple high in the mountians there was sweeper, he was lower than the lowest novice, designated to sweep up the mess the novices and higher monks left behind. Always the sweeper was the butt of jests, and jokes and alwasy he smiled a little smile of amusment at it all. When the sweeper was asked by one quiet novice why he didn;t report them to the higher preists, he asnswered "ahh but with all the abuse i get, they are teaching me My Way as no book or sutra can. So why take offense at the best teachers in the mortal world?"

The young novice, also becomae a sweeper and there like his first true teacher chose to stay, learning the gift of non attachment....

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