Student, Master and Chaos

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb.

OK!

I get the implied meaning and it didn't take me more than the time I took to read the quote to agree with whoever that put it in such a succinct way.

To paraphrase it:

Knowledge we sought rarely arrives before we are able to absorb it – and if it did, it reappears again later so we could appreciate it with the right perspective.

In a way, ambitiously though, this tries to answer every predicament we put ourselves in.

But on second reading, I couldn't stop myself wondering what happens if there is no master? What would happen to the student? Should he be waiting for the master? What if the master is only an illusion to get you, at the end of the day, pissed off?

Let me, for the argument's sake, consider ' How to get that girl to date? ' be the knowledge the student is seeking so desperately. Then, for the master to appear, he must be ready. Ready to absorb whatever gyan he's gonna get! Only problem is the poor chap couldn't know when he's ready!

To get a girl, biological and physical hurdles aside, how can he know if there is something more to learn for the master to appear or something he has been doing wrong all the time? I mean, what's the yardstick? I say, there ain't any yardsticks. Nothing. Zilch.

Not just in this case. This quote, in the present form, can never be of any worth. Things can't be changed, by knowing that master gonna appear sometime, in anticipation. It may help to console yourself about things happened, you know, in introspection.

P.S:

Here in this particular case, the master is the knowledge. Confusing, eh?

The girl is the master and the knowledge.

How?

Food for thought!