Do not obstruct anyone's progress

The Japanese elder was sitting in the forest meditating.

A man approached him and said, "Accept me as a disciple!"

The old man drew a line on the ground with his finger and said to the man: "Shorten it."

The man erased half a line from the palm of his hand.

The Japanese elder refused and said to come a year later

The man returned a year later

The elder then drew a line and said, "Shorten it."

This time the man covered half the line with the palm of his hand.

The Japanese elder refused and said:

"Go and come a year later"

The man returned the following year

The old man drew a line on the ground again and told the man to cut it short

This time the man said:

"I don't know how to make it smaller."

And asked the elder to answer

The Japanese elder lengthened the line and said:

"It's still small."

This story is told in Japan when someone digs in someone's path

And it is explained that if one's line of development is long or is going on, do not shorten it

Instead, try to lengthen your growth line

That is, do not obstruct anyone's progress, but do your work