‘Big mind gets over things quickly. It is able to do this because it has learned the impermanence of all things.’ Photo: by Ryan Snaadt on Unsplash

‘One day, if you ever have a mind like Jesus, you might allow yourself to get angry like him.’

Double cross: Tony D’Souza explores big mind and shallow mind

‘One day, if you ever have a mind like Jesus, you might allow yourself to get angry like him.’

by Tony D’Souza 20th August 2021

The novice monk had been in the Zen monastery for three years before he discovered a translation of the New Testament in the library. He read the book from cover to cover with mixed feelings. Sometimes he was amazed, sometimes alarmed. When he had finished, he approached the elderly abbot of the monastery with a question.