EDITOR’S NOTE

Dear readers,

A rich man came to a zen monk with ten thousand gold coins. He was going to make that a gift for the temple where the Monk was the priest. The monk accepted as if it was nothing. The man became disturbed. He said, ”Do you know these are ten thousand gold coins?”

The Monk said, ”You have said it so many times, I have heard it so many times. You have said it already too many times – do you think I am deaf?”

The man was just asking for thanks, only thanks, nothing more. Then he said, ”Ten thousand golden coins is a big amount, even to me. I am a very rich man, but that amount is very big.”

Monk said, ”What do you want? What are you really asking? Are you asking for some gratitude? Are you asking that I should be thankful to you?”

The man said, ”At least that much can be expected.”

The Monk said, ”Take your gold coins back. Or, if you want to give them to this temple, you will have to be thankful to me that I accepted.”

On the temple it is written even still... it is written that the giver should be thankful; only then is it a sharing. Somebody accepted your gift. This is such a great thing, because he could have rejected. Somebody accepted you through your gift. He could have rejected, there was no necessity to accept it. The giver should be thankful. Then it becomes a sharing, otherwise it is always a bargain. You are expecting something – something more valuable than you have given.

Like this story narrated by Osho.

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