The Zen teacher was driving a carriage in which a woman was sitting with her child. There was a lot of snow and the morning was very cold. There was no sun in the sky, it was cloudy. The teacher began to freeze, and so did the woman in the cart. He saw that she was gradually turning blue and losing consciousness. Then he took the child, pushed the woman out of the cart and drove away.
The woman was shocked. She was left standing there in the snow, her child was taken away - what kind of person was this? And he took the cart. She started running, screaming, screaming, cursing - and after half a kilometer, thanks to the fact that she was running, cursing, screaming and screaming, she found herself completely fine.
Then the teacher stopped the cart, sat it down and said: “Now everything is in order. I had to do this, otherwise you would have died.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru