Cerita Zen
Eating the Blame
Circumstances arose one day which delayed preperation of the dinner of
a Soto Zen master, Fukai, and his followers. In haste the cook went to
the garden with his curved knife and cut off the tops of green
vegetables, chopped them together and made soup, unaware that in his
haste he had included a part of a snake in the vegetables.
The followers of Fugai thought they never tasted such good soup. But
when the master himself found the snake's head in his bowl, he
summoned the cook. "What is this?" he demanded, holding yo the head of
the snake.
"Oh, thank you, master," replied the cook, taking the morsel and
eating it quickly.