All Buddhist followers are pretty much familiar with this symbolic lecture.
This example is commonly used in each of the lecture sessions within temples, that the monk master
usually reminds Buddhists practitioners that happiness and unhappiness always share a very
same domain. The way one perceives things determines the way one really is.
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What a Free-mind really is... (Unknown)
Two monks traveling down on a muddy road while the heavy rain was still falling.
They both saw a lovely young lady dressing in a silk kimono who was unable to cross
the muddy intersection. The first monk was about to offer help to the lady, the
second monk stopped him, "No! Watchout! Monks shouldn't get closed to females."
The first one turned to the second one, "Common, We can't leave her there! She needs help, don't you see?"
He then lifted the lady in his arm and carried her over the mud.
On the way back to the pagoda, the second monk didn't speak a word until that night when he could no longer
restrain himself. "We monks don't go near females, you know that, especially the young and lovely ones,"
he told the first monk, "and you even held her in your arms. It's dangerous. Why did you do that?"
"I left the girl there and totally forgot about it," said the first monk, "are you still carrying her here?"
Moral of the story:
It is what you think it is.
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