[Lovers India] Re: 2 Monks and a Pretty Lady

Dear, U told this story as Chinese Moral Story. But it is actually a
real incident happened with India's great monk Swami Vivekananda

On Sep 23, 6:45 am, Yusuf M <thegreatyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  * A chinese Moral Story
> * <http://keralites.net>
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>  *Once upon a time a big monk and a little monk were traveling together.
> They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had
> to wade across the river.*
>
> *There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn't
> cross the river.*
>
> *The big monk offered to carry her across the river on his back to which the
> lady accepted.*
>
> *The little monk was shocked by the move of the big monk and was thinking
> "How can big brother carry a lady when we are supposed to avoid all intimacy
> with females?" But he kept quiet.*
>
> *The big monk carried the lady across the river and the small monk followed
> unhappily. When they crossed the river, the big monk let the lady down and
> they parted ways with her.*
>
> *All along the way for several miles, the little monk was very unhappy with
> the act of the big monk. He was making up all kinds of accusations about big
> monk in his head. This got him madder and madder. But he still kept quiet.
> And the big monk had no inclination to explain his situation.*
>
> *Finally, at a rest point many hours later, the little monk could not stand
> it any further, he burst out angrily at the big monk. "How can you claim
> yourself a devout monk, when you seize the first opportunity to touch a
> female, especially when she is very pretty?"*
>
> *All your teachings to me make you a big hypocrite.*
>
> *The big monk looked surprised and said, "I had put down the pretty lady at
> the river bank many hours ago, how come you are still carrying her along?"*
>
> *Moral: This very old Chinese Zen story reflects the thinking of many people
> today. We encounter many unpleasant things in our life, they irritate us and
> they make us angry. But like the little monk, we are not willing to let them
> go away.
>
> There is no point in remaining hurt by the unpleasant event after it is
> over. Learn to move on in life!*
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