It Is God

An elderly man took refuge in a Buddhist temple at night. Winter. There were a lot of wood carvings of Buddha. The old man, who could not bear the cold, took some of those wood carvings and cooled them by the fire. The guard of the Buddhist temple saw it. "Are you burning Buddha statues ...? Get out! '' He shouted and drove out. The old man spent the rest of the night sitting by the roadside in the bitter cold. Morning the old man saw a milestone on the road. He began to worship it, as if to say, "This is the Buddha." Then the guard of the Buddhist temple who came that way saw it. "Do you look like a milestone, Buddha?" "When you know woodcarvings as Buddha, why shouldn’t I see the milestone as Buddha? ’’ The elder asked. Nothing depends on the vision we see. Stone as stone. If you think, there is a God of mercy in it, it is God.