One man came to the great artist and said:
— I want to learn how to draw bamboo. What should I do?
The teacher replied:
“First go into the jungle and live among the bamboo for three years.” When you begin to feel that you have become bamboo, come back.
The man left and did not return. Three years have passed. The teacher waited and waited, and then was forced to go in search of this man and see what had happened.
When the artist came to the jungle, he saw that man standing in a bamboo grove. The wind blew, the bamboo swayed and danced, and a man swayed and danced with it
The teacher shook him. He said:
- What are you doing? When are you going to paint?
He replied:
- Forget about it. Leave me alone! Don't bother me.
The teacher had to force him home. He said:
- Now you are ready to draw bamboo, because now you know from the inside what bamboo is
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru