He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, “My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?”The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car.
As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound unlike anything he’s ever heard before. The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to his mind. He doesn’t sleep that
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night. He tosses and turns trying to figure
out what could possibly be making such a
seductive sound.The next morning, he asks
the monks what the sound was, but they
say, “We can’t tell you. You’re not a monk.”
Distraught, the man is forced to leave.
Years later, after never being able to forget
that sound, the man goes back to the
monastery and pleads for the answer
again.The monks reply, “We can’t tell you.
You’re not a monk.”The man sa,ys, “If the
only way I can find out what is making that
beautiful sound is to become a monk, then
please, make me a monk.”The monks reply,
“You must travel the earth and tell us how
many blades of grass there are and the
exact number of grains of sand. When you
find these answers, you will have become a
monk.”The man sets about his task.
After years of searching he returns as a
gray-haired old man and knocks on the
door of the monastery. A monk answers. He
is taken before a gathering of all the
monks.”In my quest to find what makes that
beautiful sound, I traveled the earth and
have found what you asked for: By design,
the world is in a state of perpetual change.
Only God knows what you ask. All a man can
know is himself, and only then if he is
honest and reflective and willing to strip
away self deception.”The monks reply,
“Congratulations. You have become a monk.
We shall now show you the way to the
mystery of the sacred sound.”The monks
lead the man to a wooden door, where the
head monk says, “The sound is beyond that
door.”The monks give him the key, and he
opens the door. Behind the wooden door is
another door made of stone. The man is
given the key to the stone door and he
opens it, only to find a door made of ruby.
And so it went that he needed keys to doors
of emerald, pearl and diamond.
Finally, they come to a door made of solid
gold. The sound has become very clear and
definite. The monks say, “This is the last key
to the last door.”The man is apprehensive to
no end. His life’s wish is behind that door!
With trembling hands, he unlocks the door,
turns the knob, and slowly pushes the door
open.
Falling to his knees, he is utterly amazed to
discover the source of that haunting and
seductive sound……
But, of course, I can’t tell you what it is
because you’re not a Monk
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