Day 78: Hope

"Master, why do we repeat our mistakes?"

asked the pupil to the Master.

The Master shook his head.

"We're no different from a dog with a piano.

There is a chance

it can play Moonlight Sonata

even as it keeps pounding 

the same keys."

Day 77: Purpose

“Master,” the pupil asked,

”does anything happen by chance?”

And the Master made a frown,

“When the universe speaks to you,

it is never superfluous;

everything,

like the dirt in your dog’s paw,

is the message.”

Day 76. The Wisdom of a Rat

Asked the pupil to the Master,

"Master, why is life so difficult?"

The Master looked at him and smiled.

"Try asking that to a rat," the Master said.

"It would probably say it doesn't mind, 

but you with your big brain,

you pester yourself with silly questions."