Short story: A Zen Master tale on koans

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The Zen master, Frobo Repockske, was contemplating over the words in a book, while reading a book of Zen koans. One koan said that, leaves never return to where they have fallen from. 'Does oneness ever return to itself?" "Does oneness do anything, or nothing?" The master asked himself these two questions about that koan, and he took off his sandals, and looked at them then too. He grasped his walking stick, with one hand, and he arose to his feet. "Has this stick I lean on got Buddha to lean on too?" "Can we all lean on the ultimate oneness, to allow it to lean on us?" The master scratched his old head thoughtfully. The master knew that nothing could surpass the connection that love gives to all, but do all give themselves to the connector, or do they stay disconnected in the all too? The master closed his book, and he looked up at the sky. He reached up higher towards it by shaking his walking stick at it. He said, "The sky is as high as the clouds of my doubts are empty." Then he sat down, and laughed. "I am as empty as oneness is full," he said. "All is all in all." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The Zen master used to puzzle over the meaning of koans, until they removed his doubts about himself.