adopting mentors

Natural Order 

Two hundred years ago, a wealthy patron commissioned Japanese Zen monk and artists Sengai to produce a work of Calligraphy. Sengai wrote, “A parent dies, a child dies, then a grandchild dies.” The patron was furious that he’d been offered this simplistic and obvious message, but Sengai gently rebuffed his complaints. “There can be no greater happiness”, he said, “than to live a life that follows the natural order of things."