Short Story: John's boring life was not really so boring, as the truth is that no life is ever really a boring one

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John Zerploski lived the better, or should that be the worse, (it's hard for an observer to tell sometimes) half of his life in a large multi-story apartment building, subsidised by the government, for the poorer folk in his city. To most folks in his building, plus to his other friends, relatives, and acquaintances too, it seemed that John was living a pretty ordinary, unassuming life. The truth was much different to this, though. John was actually a hidden spiritual master of the Hadok Zorak line of spiritual masters. These masters roam the Earth in a way that remains unseen to most, but he did hold weekly spiritual teaching sessions in his unit, every Friday night, at 7 pm, which lasted, on most nights, to 9.00 pm, for some invited, handpicked students, who were ready to receive his teachings. One Friday night, one of John's regular students brought along an uninvited friend of his to the meeting. John said to his assembled group of students that if higher teachings were given to such a mind, not yet ready to receive them, that mind will go mad in its way, malfunction for its owner soul, and often it will stop working altogether. "The person will become, for all intents and purposes, a nutter, a religious fanatic, an unbalanced person, who will stay that way, for the rest of his, or her life, unless a master can step in, and rescue them from this plight, but which is often, not such an easy task, even for a master, as such karma, cannot often be just lifted away." "I would rather not put your friend in this position," he said, "plus though, and with a very big but to it too, now that he knows who I am too, though, now I have to take that risk with his mind." "This is the position that you have placed me in now, probably without thinking too much of the possible consequences of it, but nevertheless, I have been warning you all not to bring anyone uninvited to these meetings, all of the time that I have been lecturing you here, right from your very first attendance here of your first meeting here, and before that too, as I actually stipulated that to you, as a condition of your coming, here as one of my students." "The consequence of this now is that you Alfred, must leave my group, for now, as there is always such a consequence for all of our actions, intentional, or unintentional, in ignorance, or deliberately done." "Now, have you, Alfred, and you Jack, got anything to say about my proposal, and the proposed disposition of my proposal for you both here?" Alfred said, "Well, there is one other solution here, you, our master, could die, or stop teaching us altogether now, and simply move to another country, where your identity will there not be known still," Alfred, said, as he really did not want to be ousted out from the group in this way. "Yes", said the master, "I could die. Well, so be it," and he fell immediately over, and he immediately died." There really are consequences to every action, done in ignorance, or not. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article is from the author's own private collection of his own photos. "This drab view, as seen from the window of John's flat, was as drab as which his life appeared to most others around him."