once upon a time in ancient japan a young student was living at a prestigious temple serving the foremost renowned zen master of his time and thus learning the ways of zen he was a awfully diligent. Student and always did his perfect to please his master and be deserving of learning from him that the master was also satisfied along with his student and sooner or later he decided to entrust him with a big task he had the young monk come to him and while handling him a script roll.
He spoke take this letter and convey it to its recipient within the town of Kyoto as fast as possible under no circumstances the letter are often lost or compose the incorrect hands this might rather be often of vital importance without losing any time the monk packed some provisions and a sword and was on his due to deliver the important letter for his master.
He traveled swiftly for a few time until he reached the river with a narrow bridge across it on the bridge there stood samurai who had sworn to challenge the primary 100 men who would have tried to cross it to a sword fight.
He already had killed 99 and he was eager to complete his task by killing the young monk likewise you stepped on this bridge now you'll must fight me prepare to die He shouted bent the terrified monk desperately remembering the importance of the letter he was carrying he implored the samurai to permit him to bring the letter back to his master and swore.
That he would come to satisfy his fate subsequently the samurai granted him that wish so he traveled back to the temple all the way considering the terrible situation.
He had found himself in once at the temple he immediately visited his master and told him what had happened in hopes that he would help him but the master only said.
There is no way you'll beat the samurai during a awfully very very sword fight so you'll die I'll tell you the foremost effective because of meet your death once you reach the bridge lift your sword over your head and close your eyes then stand still and wait after you are feeling something cold touching your skull which is ready to be death.
Once again the scholar left the temple now able to meet his death so as that when he reached the bridge with the samurai who was awaiting him he did exactly as he had been told by his master he lifted his sword over his head closed his eyes and waited for the cold touch of death when the samurai saw him like this.
He suddenly thought that he must have met a awfully great master since he had never seen such a stance with closed eyes nor such a calmness before a fight he dropped his own sword and besieged him oh great master forgive my impudence and permit me to be your servant and to be told truth mastery of the sword from you.
You see in life in your life sometimes we discover ourselves in situations where there seems to be no answer but in moments like that we've to stay our cool and consider being 100 imagine if the monk would have cried and begged for his life.
The samurai would have presumably laughed at him and cut him into pieces if the scholar would have charged him during a awfully very very desperate try and strike him the result would have probably been the same but the scholar reacted in such calmness and displayed such a high degree of zen that he was superior to the samurai and thus the samurai bowed before of the scholar because he as a samurai noticed immediately.
That he had encountered a superior zen master within the scholar so irrespective of how bad things could even be regardless of how hopeless it's visiting seem remember the story of the scholar close your eyes and stay calm and also the samurai will bow before of you too this is their to undertake to to motivation stories thanks for reading and stay blessed.
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