One day while the Buddha was teaching his disciples, a woman approached. Refusing to accept her baby’s death, she carried its body in her arms. “Can you perform a miracle, and bring my baby back to life,” she asked the Buddha?
“Certainly,” the Buddha replied, “but first, I’ll need you to find me some mustard seed from a house that has never known death.”
The woman went from house to house in the village, becoming more and more frustrated unable to find that special kind of mustard seed. In time, she began to realize no one had escaped the touch of death. This realization brought her to her senses, and she understood what the Buddha was showing her. After burying her child she returned to became a disciple. The miracle was performed, but it wasn’t the baby brought back to life—it was the woman.