A Zen Master unfortunately did not have the time to work with a you enthusiastic student, but he did not want to disappoint him so he thought for a moment and decided to make him a puzzle which would simply keep him occupied until he had finished the several lessons he had planned.
But little did he know that this puzzle would become an important lesson for the master himself. He took a picture of the world out of geographical magazine and cut it up into small pieces, mixed the pieces up and asked the young boy to put them back together again in the right order.
As the photo was a very complicated one he thought it would give him a lot of time. The young boy sat in a corner and worked at the puzzle, and in a very short while he called the Master over proudly to show him the finished picture.
His teacher could hardly believe it and asked the young boy how he had done it so quickly. The boy said "on the reverse side was a picture of a dog and as you know I love animal's, so I knew that when the picture of the dog was right then so would be the picture of the world."