Chapter 355: Cause and Effect (3)
"Your father seems to have entered a deep state of realization. You must not shake him or try to wake him. Understand? Otherwise, he could be gravely harmed."
I could hear the voice of the Abbot, Master Hyewon, near my ear.
He was telling the children not to disturb me, since I was supposedly in the midst of enlightenment.
But he was wrong.
What was wrong, you ask?
I wasn’t in enlightenment at all.
That’s why I could still hear what he was saying.
If I were truly deep in enlightenment, would I be able to catch bits of conversation like that?
I had simply closed my eyes for a moment while deep in thought, but the Abbot had misunderstood.
I thought about opening my eyes and telling him it wasn’t so, but it was too embarrassing, so I decided to just pretend to be enlightened for now.
The kids had already entered full alert mode around me — it would be mortifying to call them back with, "Hey kids, Daddy’s not actually in enlightenment."
Not to mention, the Abbot himself would feel embarrassed too.