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On a pitch-dark night, a monk seeking the real Buddha was walking in a desolate village. In the also pitch-dark road, villagers were coming to and fro silently.
The monk walked round an alley and saw a dim light cast from the depth of the dark alley approaching. One villager nearby said, "Blind Sun(a blind man), is coming."
The monk felt entirely puzzled at the blind man's deed. A blind man was supposed to have no concept of day and night and cannot see everything like birds, flowers, mountains, waters, etc, around him. He could even not know how the "light" looked like. But Blind Sun was surprisingly holding a lantern, which made the monk feel confused and ridiculous. The lantern was approaching with the dim light gradually cast onto the monk's straw sandals. Out of curiosity, the monk asked Blind Sun, "Excuse me, are you really a blind man?" "Yes, I have been blind since I came to this world." The blind man replied.
The monk continued asking, "Since you could not see anything, why are you still holding a lantern?"
The blind man said, "It is dark night now, isn't it? I heard that if there is not light on the dark night, all others in the world are also blind just like me. So I lit up a lantern."
The monk got the point all of a sudden and said, "So you lit up the lantern to illuminate others?"
But the blind man replied, "No, I do it for myself."
"For yourself?" the monk sank into bewilderment again.
The blind man, with great calmness, asked the monk, "Have you ever been run into by others on a dark night?"
The monk said, "Yes. I was run into by two people just now."
The blind man said with a sense of pride, "But I have not all the time. Even though I am blind and cannot see everything, I am holding a lantern in the dark so that I can illuminate others and meantime let others see me. Then they will not run into me due to the dark night."
Hearing the blind man's words, the monk felt tremendously enlightened. He could not help looking up to the sky and sighed, "I had been travelling to a lot of places to seek the Buddha and never had I imagined that he is just around me. Our perception of Buddhism is just like a lamp. As long as we light it up, even though we cannot see the Buddha, he can still see us." To light up the lamp of our lives can not only brighten others lives, but also brighten ours. Only by brightening up others lives can we truly brighten our own. So please let others light up the lamps of our lives! Only then will we truly seek out the safety and glory we are longing for in the darkness of our lives.
Always remember: only by lighting up a light for others can we illuminate ourselves.
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