One day a sage was sailing on his boat with his disciple. The student, in order to please his teacher, wanted to say something wise. Therefore, after long thought, he showed the bottom of the boat and said: “Now we are separated from death by a distance the size of one piece of wood.” Without wasting time, the sage answered: “An hour ago, when we walked on land, this distance did not exist.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru