My starter in Zen and a story about ghost.

First, I want to tell everybody whose came in my blog .

I want to told you that thank you very much for you here.

I’m a woman from somewhere in the world, my country don’t use English in everyday life so, this is the problem of my blog.

I can’t told you what the real things I had think.

And any program can’t help for all I want, It’s not all the meaning but, it still useful for a woman whose don’t know how to explain and write it in English.

I fall in love with Zen, I known Zen in my pity life when I at the university and I have a lot of problem in the university ,it so hard to study because it’s not my skill at all.

I study in major about drugs and the science but I don’t like to remember.

I don’t like to learn by rote or learn by memory everything in textbook.

So, I have to aid that I fail in my university life for a long time about 10 years of my suffer from the learning.

I can’t smile ,can’t talk and make my parents feel very worry about me.

I want to told my lovely mom and dad I’m sorry from my fail.

You done the best things for me but I don’t try for my best I make you disappoint in me.

In that time I look like a crazy woman .I doing something which very no so good. I make my family very worry.

And one day I go to the bookstore I found some lovely book .I want to told you I buy it from it’s front cover picture.

After that I read it, and then I known that it’s about Zen.

Zen is no rule ,no step, no laws , it’s not complete guide to do somethings or everythings .

Zen make me think about myself.

Make me look in to myself.

Zen don’t told me what It  have to do ,and what I couldn’t do, I just think about what I do and what I want to do.

And this is one story I had read in that book.

Just reading and think about it or look at the picture in this blog and look in to your mind.

Banishing a Ghost

The wife of a man became very sick. On her deathbed, she said to him, "I

Love you so much! I don't want to leave you, and I don't want you to betray

Me. Promise that you will not see any other women once I die, or I will come

back to haunt you."

For several months after her death, the husband did avoid other women, but

then he met someone and fell in love. On the night that they we re engaged to

be married, the ghost of his former wife appeared to him. 

She blamed him for not keeping the promise, and every night thereafter she returned to taunt

him.

 The ghost would remind him of everything that transpired between him and his fiancee that day, even to the point of repeating, word for word, their conversations. 

It upset him so badly that he couldn't sleep at all.

Desperate, he sought the advice of a Zen master who lived near the village.

"This is a very clever ghost," the master said upon hearing the man's story.

"It is!" replied the man. "She remembers every detail of what I say and do.

It knows everything!" 

The master smiled, "You should admire such a ghost,

but I will tell you what to do the next time you see it."

That night the ghost returned. The man responded just as the master had

advised. "You are such a wise ghost," the man said,

 "You know that I can

hide nothing from you. If you can answer me one question, I will break off

the engagement and remain single for the rest of my life." 

 "Ask your question," the ghost replied. The man scooped up a handful of beans from a

large bag on the floor, "Tell me exactly how many beans there are in my

hand."

At that moment the ghost disappeared and never returned.

People's reactions to this story:

"Ghosts are just human and can't know or do anything that a human can't."

"No one knows everything. Not even a spirit. You can be wise in some ways, but not in all

ways."

"The ghost kept coming back because the man was always impressed by how it seemed to know

everything. It had power over him. But when he finally stood up to it, and challenged it, the

ghost disappeared forever."  

"The ghost is actually a part of the man. So it couldn't know anything that the man himself didn't

know."

"The ghost comes from the man's own mind. He created it. It is his own guilt that came back to

haunt him."

"The reason something haunts us is because we keep our attention on it. When we move on

beyond it it will disappear."

"To me, this story just shows that souls have memories, but not enlightenment."

"I don't like the ending. I read the story with high expectations, but felt let down in the

end."

"Why didn't the ghost know that the man had seen a Zen master?"

"If the wife really loved the husband, how could she subject him to such a promise?"

"Everything the ghost knew didn't amount to a handful of beans!"