Once upon a time a visitor was travelling through a foreign country.
The traveller had been told a very wise person lived in this country, and was eager to make the acquaintance of this wise person.
Everywhere the traveller went they asked directions to visit the wise one and was repeatedly told “he lives on the edge of the forest.”
When the traveller would ask directions to the forest, the answer would come back, ‘follow the direction of the sun.”
After much searching, the traveller found the wise one sitting on the porch of a small house, and the wise one invited the traveller inside to share tea.
On entering the house, the visitor was astonished to see that the wise person’s home was only a simple room filled with two or three books. The only furniture was a table a chair, a cot bed and a bench.
‘O Wise One, where is your furniture? where are all your possessions?’ asked the visitor.
‘Where are yours? replied the wise one.
‘Mine? But I am only a visitor here. I’m only passing through’
‘So am I,’ replied the wise one.