Throwback Thursday
Furuya Sensei posted this to his Daily Message on March 4, 2002.
Everything has its own nature. Bamboo requires so much water that we cannot even imagine how much we have to water it. Bamboo's nature is to thrive on water. However, the orchid is completely different, it thrives on less water. One (bamboo) we must flood with water and enough is never enough. Some students demand tremendous amounts of attention and direction. The other (orchid) we should not water at all and in doing so we allow it to search for water itself in the dry soil which enables it to become strong and flourish.