april

A Parable of Zen Seeking a Cure for Baldness



Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2008

by april
Mandarin as a Second Language Master

There was a bald man whose head felt very cold in winter. But in summer, he always got bitten by mosquitoes on the head and found it hard to get a good night's sleep. He was very trouble by this problem, but there was nothing he could do about it.

One day he heard about a famous physician who cured many difficult diseases and solved many problems. He decided to consult him.

He traveled for days and finally met this famous physician. This physician was dressed in very plain clothes and wearing a hat.

The bald man came up and said to the physician: "Doctor, please cure me of baldness."

The physician looked at him and replied sadly: "If I had a cure for baldness, I would have cured myself first." And he removed his hat and showed his own bald head.

The conclusion from the zen master: Fellow sufferers of the same illness empathize with each other.

The conclusion from April after reading this parable: Famous people don't always have answers.

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After years of teaching Chinese to non-Chinese speakers, April Zhang established mandarin As A Second Language Master (www.mslmaster.com), and spent five years in writing two series of Chinese learning books. One, Mandarin Express, focuses on speaking and listening. The other one, Chinese Reading and Writing, focuses on reading and writing. She also produced a large amount of Mandarin learning resources and materials. As an obsessed reader, April has a passion for books and articles. Occasionally she also likes to write something which is not always about language learning.
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