[D9 LM open] Music to inner peace

[Shiba Ryushi]

"They all give me different answers. " The Shiba sighed. "Some are doable others not so much." He explained.

[Chou-sin]

"How has progress gone on the ones that seem 'doable?'" Chou-sin asks.

[Shiba Ryushi]

"Sometimes they go well others not so much. Thus I continue to do them. Prayers and wards seem to help. Which are the doable ones. But they don't help all the time. Like the other day... the winds of wisdom caught me off guard."

[Chou-sin]

Chou-sin almost blushes.

"Are you saying the Fortune broke wind at you?"

[Shiba Ryushi]

"More or less..." The joke went over the Shiba's head. "The wind sounded like it was laughing at me...I got the wind knocked out of me."

[Chou-sin]

Chou-sin cannot help but chuckle at it.

"Take some comfort in the fact that you have the Fortune's attention," he says. "What seems a curse is sometimes a test sent to make a person stronger."

[Shiba Ryushi]

"That is what makes me see the day to day in the temples. To gather the wisdom of the elder monks and to pray that their wisdom help me find that missing puzzle to redeem myself." Ryshi bowed. "Perhaps one day I will have a scroll in the library with how actions lead to a life of seeking and not just a struggle with life but within oneself."

[Chou-sin]

Chou-sin nods.

"There are many who do so," he says. "Most of them end up shaving their heads."