To All Martial Artist and Those Interested In Martial Arts,have you heard this before?

Question

An old Martial Arts Master is training his young student on a hill in the countryside.The Master pauses, holds up a piece of glass, and ask the student to look thru it and asks "what do you see?"
The student replies "I see the sky,the trees,the grass,the birds,
the stream,children playing,...I see everything"
The Master then held up a mirror and asked "what do you see now".The student replied "I see only myself".
At this the Master said "see what a difference a little bit of silver makes"

Please comment below.

Answer 1

I believe that the silver is referring to money, and that it's presence can make us so selfish that we see only ourselves and we may fail to consider anything else around us.

Answer 2

Wealth can distort your perception of the world, any make you poorer. Clearly one who sees everything is richer than one who sees only himself.
Interesting how most martial arts studios have huge mirrors in them.

Answer 3

Ide break the mirror one should not let material things get in the way of spiritual enlightenment.

Answer 4

I refer to the silver as jail......because u can only see urself.............ONLY..............
freedom of sight........
ur shadow being locked in that piece of silver.......


But the glass is clear.............and can see everything through it...........



I've never heard of this before but I'd like 2 know more

Answer 5

yes i hav and i say that wealth is not everything a poor man and a rich man meet the rich rich man says to the poor man," fight me." so they do and the poor man wins

it doesnt matter how wealthy u r u will not always win

Answer 6

How is that gonna help you when you're getting your face kick in?

Answer 7

Be like water my friend.

Answer 8

wealth and materialism is dangerous, don't let it consume you and control you