Salt and water

This is actually a teaching from a monk
when i go for self improvement trip
(oh ya, i was a semi-monk when i young , )

One day, I go to temple to seek enlightenment from Bhante (monk in sankrit)
about the regret and guilt i having now,
how to deal with this emotions,


He told me this story , is something to Karma studies ge, about salt and water
Karma is something like ur saving account
but u having Karma instead of money in the account
once u did a good deed ( karma is deposited in ur account automatically)
and for bad thing u did ( Karma taken from ur account)

Now i going to the teaching

One day i ask Bhante for his counselling (advice )
about how i deal with my guilt


Then he ask me to follow him to kitchen ,
He then take out a cup of water,
and he put 3 tablespoon of salt into it.

"Taste the water,
it is salty right ?" Bhante says,

I nodded

Then he ask to follow him , this time to a pond ,
he then threw that cup of water to pond.

"now taste the water in the pond,
Is it salty ? " he asked again

This time i answered : nope

Then he added

Karma works the same way too
The salt is all the misdeed u have done
The deed u did is like water ,

"It cant be help if you did mistakes,
you might accidentally add salt ,
but what most important is add as much water as possible
while making sure the amount of salt remain constant,
so that your Karma wont be salty" He said

ya, i did regret about my past ,my mistakes
but past is past right ,
I cant reduce the amount of salt in my karma account already
what i can do now is just to add as much water as possible


Seriously , till now i wont forget his teachings
and is like .......so many years ago ,
i still rmb it clearly


I think i will post more of his teachings here if it is interesting to u
let me know thru comment ya


boonboon2k2
I paraphrase what Bhante said ,
not direct quoting
Bhante english is way lot better than this