A
Master says to his students,
"A goose egg in a bottle hatches,.......... and the goose begins to
grow.
Your task is to get the goose out of the bottle without breaking the
bottle or injuring the goose."
One student thought and thought about this at great length.
How could he get the goose out of the bottle without hurting the
goose or breaking the bottled?
Not being able to figure it out, he became so frustrated with the
question that he could not sleep for days, for weeks.
All answers seemed ridiculous, illogical.
Finally the student prostrated
himself in front of the Master
and beseeched "Master, please tell me how to get the goose out of the
bottle.
This problem is driving me out of my mind. "
"Very well," said the Master.
"Bring me the bottle with the goose inside."
The blinding clarity in the moment, like the flash of lightening, in
a summer sky.
And the realization exploded in the student, ..........
...... he had been struggling with a situation that had no
existential reality.
The goose was always out of the bottle.
Does your mind exist, for it to quietened?
Does your ego exist, for it to be eliminated?
For whom, ...does any of your issues, .......spiritual, religious, or
otherwise,...
... have an existential reality?
Does "that",.......... have any existential reality?