Lamb by Moore Christopher

Author:Moore, Christopher [Moore, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Humorous Fiction, Christian Fiction, Bible, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ - Friends and Associates
ISBN: 9780380813810
Google: bNO3yU4E1FsC
Amazon: 0380813815
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

“Joshua, you’re scaring me,” I said, talking to the disembodied voice that floated before me in the temple. “Where are you?”

“I am everywhere and nowhere,” Joshua’s voice said.

“How come your voice is in front of me then?” I didn’t like this at all. Yes, my years with Joshua had jaded me in regard to supernatural experiences, but my meditation hadn’t yet brought me to the place where I wouldn’t react to my friend being invisible.

“I suppose it is the nature of a voice that it must come from somewhere, but only so that it may be let go.”

Gaspar had been sitting in the temple and at the sound of our voices he rose and came over to me. He didn’t appear to be angry, but then, he never did. “Why?” Gaspar said to me, meaning, Why are you talking and disturbing everyone’s meditation with your infernal noise, you barbarian?

“Joshua has attained enlightenment,” I said.

Gaspar said nothing, meaning, So? That’s the idea, you unworthy spawn of a razor-burned yak. I could tell that’s what he meant by the tone in his voice.

“So he’s invisible.”

“Mu,” Joshua’s voice said. Mu meaning nothing beyond nothingness in Chinese.

In an act of distinctly uncontrolled spontaneity, Gaspar screamed like a little girl and jumped four feet straight in the air. Monks stopped chanting and looked up. “What was that?”

“That’s Joshua.”

“I am free of self, free of ego,” Joshua said. There was a little squeak and then a nasty stench infused us.

I looked at Gaspar and he shook his head. He looked at me and I shrugged.

“Was that you?” Gaspar asked Joshua.

“Me in the sense that I am part of all things, or me in the sense of I am the one who poofed the gefilte gas?” asked Josh.

“The latter,” said Gaspar.

“No,” said Josh.

“You lie,” I said, as amazed at that as I was at the fact that I couldn’t see my friend.

“I should stop talking now. Having a voice separates me from all that is.” With that he was quiet, and Gaspar looked as if he were about to panic.

“Don’t go away, Joshua,” the abbot said. “Stay as you are if you must, but come to the tea chamber at dawn tomorrow.” Gaspar looked to me. “You come too.”

“I have to train on the poles in the morning,” I said.

“You are excused,” Gaspar said. “And if Joshua talks to you anymore tonight, try to persuade him to share our existence.” Then he hurried off in a very unenlightened way.

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