Stop being a Glass ..

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt
in
a glass of water and then to drink it. "How does it taste?" the Master
asked. "Awful," spat the apprentice. The Master chuckled and then asked
the
young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The
two
walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his
handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, "Now drink from the
lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How
does
it taste?" "Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?"
asked
the Master. "No," said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said,

"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in
life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the
'pain'
depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the
only
thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things ..... Stop being a
glass. Become a lake!"