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Tenji

“A criminal”

How can be God-like he was a criminal.

Taki (sighs), “yes, he didn’t make such good choices at the start”.

He was an orphan, so there was no one to guide him. So, he steals food to survive. He always wanted to be rich and he spend his childhood on the streets. He saw how people were, so he never cared for anyone. He started killing to earn. In his teenage years, he got addicted to drugs. He was always intoxicated and aggressive. He spent his childhood alone and that made him tough against people. One day a g**g attacked him, and they almost killed him. They left him beaten badly in forests. He was there for three days begging for death, but he didn’t die. Then one day Lord “Aishi” found him, almost dying. He was searching for new meaning in life. He took him to the Temple. Completely forgot about his plan. Other monks were not happy that he brought someone with him, but as he was the head at that time, no one dared to question him.

They used medication over his body and gave food to him. At that time father was known by the name of “Tenji”. But no one asked him for his name. As he was recovering fast, he asked Lord Aishi, “why did you save me”.

Lord Aishi smiled and said, “I didn’t save you, God did”.

Even if there was someone else who needs to be saved and can be saved, I would have saved him.

Then he smiled and left.

Tenji kept thinking about this incident and the selfishness of Lord Aishi and his polite nature, beautiful smile, and powerful aura.

The next morning he gets off his bed and crawls to the temple and puts his head in the feet of Lord Aishi and asks him to accept him as a disciple.

Upon hearing his request Lord Aishi replied, “No, I can’t”.

Why?

You don’t have what it takes to be a monk.

Lord Aishi smiles and leaves, but Tenji didn’t understand what was he exactly lacking, so gets back to his room and starts thinking about this all.

Tenji daily wakes up early and goes to the temple daily, no matter how’s the weather or anything. He started learning about the ways of monks. One day he left the temple and enters the outside world.

But now this time it was completely different, the way he used to see the world was changed. He spent time in the outside world and then spent years in forests in solitude. He observed the ways of nature and started learning about the facts that everyone ignores. “The existence of life”. After spending a few decades in solitude he came back to the real world. But this time he had no name no existence and everyone forgot about his past existence.

He went straight to the temple and saw that Lord Aishi was waiting for him on the temple gate with other monks.

“What took you so long? I was waiting for you”. (Lord Aishi speaks with a big smile).

“I was lost master and it took some time to figure my way out but I’m here master” (Tenji replies)