Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 22, 2013

One of the disciples of Rabbi Shmelke complained of "alien thoughts." The rabbi told the man to visit another disciple Rabbi Abraham Haim, who was an innkeeper. For two weeks the disciple stayed with the innkeeper and observed his customs. He watched each day as Rabbi Haim prayed and did his work and thought there was nothing special about him. But the disciple did not know what happened at night, after all the guests had gone, and early in the morning, before the guests arrived. Finally, he worked up the courage to ask the Rabbi.
The Rabbi told him that in the evening he washed all the dishes and, as in the course of the night the dust settled on them, he washed them again in the morning.
When the disciple returned to Rabbi Shmelke and told him all this, the Rabbi said, "Now you know all you need to know."
~Jewish Mondo