A Zenmaster was invited to a great Catholic monastery to instruct the monks who resided there in the practice of Zen. The holy man exhorted the monks to meditate constantly and to try to solve their koan or Zen mystery with great energy and zeal. He told them that if they practiced with full-hearted effort, true understanding would come to them. "But, you really must put your hearts into it," he s...
2. Just To Laugh
Mark 1:35-39
Illustration
Barry J. Robinson
G. K. Chesterton once mused that Jesus went off by himself in order to laugh. In other words, when he couldn't stand the kind of ridiculous expectations that his friends and followers kept making of him, eventually he went off to laugh just to keep his sanity. Well, maybe. Certainly, everybody seems to want a piece of him in this picture Mark paints. Maybe he went off by himself just to get some p...
