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and accusing that their daughter had confessed that he was the father. All he
replied was, “Is that so?”
News of the scandal spread throughout the town and beyond. The
Master lost his reputation. This did not trouble him. Nobody came to see him
anymore. He remained unmoved. When the child was born, the parents
brought the baby to Hakuin. “You are the father, so you look after him.” The
Master took loving care of the child. A year later, the mother remorsefully
confessed to her parents that the real father of the child was the young man
who worked at the butcher shop. In great distress they went to see Hakuin to
apologize and ask for forgiveness. “We are really sorry. We have come to
take the baby back. Our daughter confessed that you are not the father.” “Is
that so?” is all he would may as he handed the baby over to them.
The Master responds to falsehood and truth, bad news and good news,
in exactly the same way: “Is that so
annaabi.ee 
