Master You Tan sat in the courtyard of the farmhouse, waiting for the old woman to prepare a vegetarian meal for her.
She knew that the other three had a shallow karmic connection with beings, and this time they would find it difficult to succeed in their spiritual almsgiving. She believed she was the only chance.
She didn't mind staying either. Having cultivated Buddhism to such a level, coming and going were matters of fate—staying when there is a connection, leaving when there is not.
Just like Shakyamuni Buddha did not choose to appear in this world but came naturally because the beings' karma with him reached a point.
Watching the old woman carefully scrub the pots and cut the vegetables, all grown in the field, cooked in the most primitive way, yet with extraordinary seriousness and devotion.
The You Tan Master felt that this connection might succeed, and if it did, she would continue to stay and pass on the Buddhist law in this world.
