The Answer on The Mountain

There is an ancient Buddhist tale that tells of a man who once, during a most difficult time in his life chose to climb a tall mountain in order to gain a better perspective of things. After he reached the summit of the tallest peak he sat down in meditation for one day, then two, and then finally three days and he still hadn't gained any revelation into where the solution to his problems lay. He only saw the landscape, the clouds and the sky. On the fourth day's evening he rose his eyes to the stars of the nighttime sky and then suddenly realized there was one thing he hadn't done as of yet to help him gain some insight. He then rose his voice to the sky begging the universe for some insight, for some answer to his life situation and some insight to his path forward.

On the morning of the fifth day, he rose to his feet and walked down the mountain rather disgusted that he hadn't been bestowed with any gift of thought, of mind or of spirit to help him along his way. When he returned to his home, he decided to set himself to the task of solving his problems himself since it was clear the universe had no intention of helping him. He did solve his problems and was quite proud of his accomplishments.

Many years later he discussed this entire situation with a holy man. After finishing his recitation, the holy man smiled from ear to ear which certainly seemed to irritate the mountain climbing man. The man asked, "Why are you smiling? There was no gift of insight, no answer from the heavens, no revelation from the spirit to help me! I had to do it all by myself! What do you say to that?"

To this, the holy man responded, "but the spirit did answer you." He went on to say, "Your response to the revelation you gained was to get off of your backside and to walk the path of life in a solution instead of walking the path of life in a complaint!" The holy man then rose to his feet, and left....

As Always,

WD Allan

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