Date 28/07 /2021
Theme: Respect / Disrespect goes hand in hand
Our society & its people are very unpredictable they would keep commending you and yours one mistake they will start taking adverse & disrespecting you.
On the same lines, I am sharing a zen story of great zen master hakuin.
A zen master hakuin lived in a village in Japan. He was very famous and had a great reputation. The whole village worshipped and respected him. Songs were sung all over the village in his honor. But one day everything changed. A young girl in the village became pregnant and gave birth to a child. When her family asked her whose child it was she said it was the child of the zen haiku.
How long does it take for admirers to become enemies? How long? It does not take even a short while because inside the mind of an admirer condemnation is always hidden. The mind just waits for a chance, and the day admiration ends, condemnation begins. Those people who show respect can change in one minute to being disrespectful. The people who are touching a person's feet can within a moment start cutting the same person's head off. There is no difference between respect and disrespect they are two faces of the...