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Why It Is OK To Have No Ambition In Life?

a zen short story

By WilliamPublished 10 months ago 9 min read
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path of trouble and ache the students

saved giggling as zawa seemed immersed in

his mind the teacher persevered zawa

you have no purpose yes I do zawa

responded suddenly

there has been a large smile on the trainer's

face a pupil finally had gotten the

message

so what's your ambition what is your

aim what is your destination zawa the

trainer requested with curiosity

zawa responded searching outdoor of the

window as though a deep creativeness became

taking place in his thoughts he stated I need to

cut the timber within the morning drink my tea

within the night and sleep at night time the

teacher stated no that isn't always an

ambitionzawa due to the fact you're already

doing itthe bell rang all of the college students ran to

their school rooms and so did zawa it become

zawa's first day of college he had never

been to highschool earlier than in his existence Zava

became 15 years antique he became born to a

Woodcutter named Caillou each zawa and

Kayu lived at the hill in his initial

years zawa helped his father to cut the

timber and the hilltops

this wood became offered in the metropolis to run

their circle of relatives and also to maintain them heat

in their Hut

because of severe poverty Caillou could not

have the funds for to send his son to school

although he dreamed of it continually

zawa had constantly been assisting his father

and also discovered the woodcutter's work

it was perfect to sharpen the ax and hit

the tree at the proper spots he by no means had

friends and in no way had been to the town

from his birth until now he changed into simplest

reducing trees and wearing wooden

sooner or later Caillou informed zawa approximately his

plans to send him to school what's the

faculty requested zawa Kyle left and pointed

to the crimson building down the hill that

is a college and you'll get schooling

there with training you turns into

smart and discover better paintings than

this answered Caillou

no longer sure Zao understood what his father

supposed he simply nodded the blank yes he

had no concept if there exists a better

paintings than reducing and wearing timber as

he had by no means seen any while living at

the hilltop

so in the future zawa become sitting in the

lecture room with all of the new youngsters

the teacher entered the room and

every body greeted in recognize zawa did as

the others did

the trainer announced that nowadays every

pupil had to tell the complete class what

their ambition in lifestyles become

zawa had by no means heard the phrase ambition

before in his existence he turned into simply instructed by

his father that he might research something

at school so all of the college students were given up one

through one

someone's ambition turned into to be a pilot the

different one desired to be a medical doctor

another one again an engineer or a

soldier and so on but zawa he had no

clue when his flip came he stood blank

the teacher asked zawa what his ambition

in life turned into and zawa requested the instructor

instructor what is ambition the complete elegance

bursted out guffawing the trainer

silenced the elegance and defined to zawa

that ambition changed into some thing that he

desired to reap in life something that

he desired to do or some thing that he

wants to become

zawa nonetheless stood clean all his lifestyles he

had chopped and carried wooden he had no

idea that there was something known as

ambition wherein she had to get

something which become supposed to be far

from him as in keeping with the definition of

ambition given to him

zawa replied slowly I do not have

ambition I cut wooden and convey branches

from Hill trees with my father we worked

for the duration of the day consume inside the evenings and

sleep throughout the night there is not anything

more than that I and my father obtain

all that we plan in the morning by the

night

the complete class started guffawing once more

the trainer silenced the magnificence again

of path zawa was now not telling a lie and

the kids had been simply conditioned to

laugh at anything that wasn't some thing

that they knew

so the trainer informed zawa you ought to have

an ambition without ambition you're a

intention-much less man or woman an empty man or woman who is

lacking any experience of course

so zawa went deep into mind he stood

clean he couldn't understand why the

teacher become asking him to assume

some thing a aim or a destination it

made no feel to him all his life he

notion that cutting wooden in the morning

and slumbering at night time is all that there

had to be achieved there has been nothing else to

be finished and now he was being informed that

there has been something else to be achieved

which had now not been completed yet and he need to

do it due to the fact he become born without it and

he must get it

the instructor endured you have to stroll

the course Sawa you need to work hard if

you still paintings difficult at some point you

will really attain your vacation spot

however zawa asked what avenue or vacation spot

the teacher got impatient the road to

your ultimate purpose your vacation spot your

actual domestic

zawa notion to himself why am I being

asked to work tough on a street to go to a

location where I do not need to move they name

this area a purpose a vacation spot they

assume everybody ought to preserve strolling on that

street to attain that vicinity however what if I

do no longer need to reach my purpose what if I

do now not need to reach the destination I

do not even realize how some distance it's far how do I

understand and if I attain there how do I recognize

that i am there

do I sit down and maintain waiting or do i get

bored and circulate beyond it or do I walk

returned to where I began I do not experience I

must stroll up to now to a place which

does now not appearance any extra lovely than my

Hilltop house is it obligatory for

all people to walk to their dreams

what about individuals who pick now not to are

they referred to as directionless but what does

it matter if a person is already at its

destination is that a horrible idea to

be at your vacation spot with out walking a

zawa replied sure is not that incredible

because i have already reached my

destination

the trainer got irritated and dismissed the

elegance zawa looked pressured and

unanswered that night zawa instructed his

father Caillou what had happened at

faculty

father we're cutting the wooden from the

timber which can be already there but the

college is telling me to reduce the timber

from the trees which are not there they

are asking all and sundry to First grow a tree

watch for it to develop up after which reduce the

wood some thing which we're doing proper

now with out growing one

Kaya laughed on the shrewd comments

of such a simple query he requested zawa

how he felt approximately his existence zawa turned into

glad reducing wooden due to the fact this is all

he had done he located delight and

happiness in his work however the new world

at college referred to as ambition become meant

to be telling him that happiness and

delight had been not to be felt so

easily however after plenty of difficult paintings and

pain you can by no means be already at your

aim on the start of your life

the calmness is constantly to be away from

you and you should stroll that course to attain

the ones feelings handiest to realise that after

you attain there there isn't something

there and you may have all those

emotions from any factor to your journey

or with out a adventure itself

tell them what they want to hear zawa

additionally they have ambitions to be

a success instructors Caillou said

laughingly and left his son by myself

to ponder his mind at nights at the

hilltop

the next day at faculty azawa became the

first pupil to hold from in which the

teacher had completed the day earlier than

I notion approximately it and i feel I need to

be a health practitioner said zawa the instructor gave a

massive smile and clapped for zawa as he

took his seat and the elegance endured

Zabo appeared out of the window he noticed it

turned into raining and grey clouds growled in

the sky

the clouds never moved in one course

they simply moved the rain did no longer fall in

any route it simply rained the grass

did not develop in any sample it simply grew

none of those elements in nature seemed

as though they had a plan they were just

being themselves real to their real

nature

then he noticed Gardner reducing the grass

right into a stunning layout to provide it a

shape he realized that human beings could not

stay with nature with out changing it

and human beings themselves are a part of that

nature sarcastically.

you see in life to your lifestyles is there

truely a path with the intention to walk is there a

aim so one can reach are you slicing

the grass in a design are you simply

letting the grass of life develop are you

letting the reign of life reign

are you letting the Tree of lifestyles grow

it is ok to have goals and it is

ok to be glad in which you are right now

life is continuously evolving

new things are discovered new approaches of

existence are located every day each

2d on this universe that is there to

do motivation stories thank you a lot

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William

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