Big heart

"You suffer only when your heart is small.
When your heart grows big you don't suffer any more."

We need to learn how to make our heart grow big.

There is a story of a zen master, asking his students to mix a bowl of salt into a cup of water. Then he asked a student to taste it, the student said it was too salty. The zen master asked him to mix it in the pond, and asked him to taste the water in the pond, the student said the water tasted as if no salt had been added to it. So when a huge pond receives the bowl of salt, the saltiness is not significant; when we have big heart to receive whatever comes to us, our big heart can neutralized everything and keep its own characteristics.