The Moon Cannot Be Stolen
RYOKAN, a Zen master, lived
the simplest kind of life in a little hut at
the foot of a mountain. One evening a
thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal.
Ryokan returned and caught him. "You may have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away.