Robot Monk Xian'er

There are only 3 days in life--yesterday,today andtomorrow.【Xian’er says so: “Understanding life in the present.”】Xian’er overate ice cream and overslept again. He missed chanting sutras, skipped the morning class, and did not get to hiswork of cleaning toilets. Again, he got yelled at by Shifu and regret what he has done. He was in great sorrow and it seemed only eating more ice cream would help. He could not get out of bed, had no strength to attend to sutra chanting norclean the toilet. Heregret it so muchthat he could accept no more criticism from Shifu. Xian’er asked shifu what to do. Shifu gave him some advice. Xian’er did what Shifu asked him to do.  He got up and went to sutra chanting;  Afterwards he attended the class and went on to clean toilets. Even though he was yelled at by Shifu again, all he felt was delight. Below are quoted from my Shifu’s new book, Say Good Things—Master Xuecheng’sinsight on the path to speaking like a Buddha. Regret is an outcome. Often we blame ourselves for this outcome