The Zen master, Fredrik Ripocke had recently come into the mastership of his monastery.
He was now the chief master there, running the whole ship and caboodle himself.
He decided to change some things right away.
He made the breakfast now 7 am, instead of 6 am, each morning.
He expected the students to do an extra hour's meditation, as this was what changed them the most, in a way that nothing else could.
He even came up with a new meditation method for them.
They were to sit on an easy chair, with a blanket wrapped around their shoulders, and to dip themselves down towards the ground, so they meditated looking at the floor, with their eyes open wide.
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They should look at a spot on the floor, until their eyes became tired, then slowly close them, and sit up straight, once more again.
The next step was to chant a charged word, which he also now gave to them.
This was a meaningless sound, which hummed in their body though, energising it, and the sound that he gave to them was the word, "Zzzuuummmm".
They were to sing this softly to themselves, out loud though, with their mouth, feeling the humming vibrating their body, until a goodly time had expired.
Only then were they to look up quickly, eyes open again, at the ceiling, and a word, or two, would appear there for them then, if they were quick enough in sight to see it dancing there before their eyes.
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The words such gathered each day of the week would be a unique message to them from this new master, and at the end of each week they would report the sentence obtained to him, and he would check for himself its accuracy of transmission.
The first student to come back to him with the most accurate message would be his new head of students here.
This student was Arled Frellispo.
His message was this one:
"The enlightenment comes only when it comes, never before, never after again either. It comes, it comes."
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