3. Master – the living promise🔗

It is like this: the seed is trying to break and become a tree. The seed says to the tree, 'Please! You come out first. Only then will I break and open. Who knows? After I break, you may not happen. I may just die and disappear.' But the tree says, 'No no, unless you open, I cannot come out. Open!' The seed says, 'No, no. You come out first, give me the assurance and the guarantee that you will happen and only then will I open'. The fight goes on.

The seed is afraid because if it opens, it may just die instead of becoming the tree. The tree says, 'Unless you open, I cannot come out, I cannot happen.' The fight between the tree's happening and the seed's opening continues.

The master is a person who was once a seed, and who later became a tree. We are like the seed. He assures the seed, 'Don't worry, I was like you. I had the courage to open up and I have become this beautiful tree. So just open! Just relax. You will only become a tree, you will never die.' He gives you the assurance, the confidence. Master is a promise, an assurance, a living ideal. He gives you the promise, 'Open, you will never die!'