– A Lesson –
\nA New Parable of the Buddha<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Three mornings in a row, the Buddha sat
\nand sipped his tea beneath the banyan tree.
\nHe waited for the coming of the thought
\nthat would define this way, this life. What’s more,
\nhis expectation was that he would know
\nnot just the answers but the questions that
\nhad baffled men for centuries. You see
\nhe wasn’t born with wisdom. He was not.<\/p>\n
But nothing came and though his mind, a store
\nof eagerness, cried out, he’d naught to show.
\nJust then a child sat by him with a toy,
\nThough the child smiled wide, the toy was broken.<\/p>\n
He sat it in the sage’s lap and said,
\n“The only questions are the words unspoken.”<\/p>\n
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