#235: Put it down

We have been warned repeatedly that change is coming. Well, actually, for many of us, change arrived some time ago.

We have been forced to change where we work, what we drive, how we relax and when we retire. Some of us have even had to change where we sleep at night.

If we are not careful, change can turn us into angry people, stuck in the past, like the monk in this Zen story:

Two monks came upon a river where a pretty girl was trying to cross without getting her clothes wet. Without hesitating one monk picked her up, carried her across, put her down and walked on. The other monk was so shocked that he voiced his indignation step after step.

Finally his whining got through to the first monk who said, "That girl? I put her down at the river. Are you still carrying her?"

Now my question is this - which monk would you rather be?



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