Once, when the Buddha was sitting under a tree, came to him a great philosopher. Buddha was then already very old, and within a few months he had to leave.
The great philosopher asked Buddha: "They said if you have everything they knew?"
Buddha picked up a few dry leaves, and asked the philosopher: "What do you think, how many leaves in my hand? Do More of them than of dry leaves in the forest? "
The whole forest was full of dry leaves the wind was blowing everywhere, and dry leaves created a lot of noise and a lot of music. The philosopher looked up and said: "What kind of question you ask? How can you have more leaves in your hand? you have several, very large - a dozen, and in the woods them - millions. And the Buddha replied: "What I said, this is only a few leaves in my hand. And the fact that I did not say it all the dry leaves in the forest. "
The philosopher said: "Then another question! Why did not you say all this? "The Buddha replied:" Because it does not help you. Even if I wanted to say it, it can not be said. You have to go through and then you will know it. It comes through experience, through the existence of ".
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