A student came to a Zen master and asked:
- Why are some people beautiful and others ugly, some smart and others stupid? Why is there such a contradiction? Why did God create some beautiful and others ugly? And don’t tell me about karmas, that all this is because of past lives. How did the difference appear from the very beginning, when the past did not yet exist?
The master took him into the garden and said:
- This tree is big, and this one is small. I often sat under these trees and thought: why is this? But when I dropped the mind, the question itself disappeared. Now I know that this tree is big and that one is small. No problem!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru