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Part of my "Core Stories" collection.
In my version, it is another symbolic kindness act of Sharing that is triggered by the Compassion from one to another.

 



Sharing (Unknown)


There was a story about two brothers, one was married and the other was single. They worked together as family farmers. They shared everything equally, produce and profit as the day ends.
Then one day the single brother told himself that it wasn't right that he should share equally the produce and the profit to his married brother. "I'm alone and my needs are simple. He has wife and kids. He surely needs more." He said.
Each night he then took a sack of grain from his bin and crept across the field between the two houses, dumping it into his brother's bin.
Meanwhile, the married brother thought the same thing that it wasn't right that he should share the produce and the profit equally. "After all, I'm married. I have wife and children who look after me in years to come. My brother has no one, and no one to take care of his future. He deserves more." He then also, each night, took a sack of grain and dumped it into his single brother's bin each night.
Both men were puzzled for years because their supply of grain never dwindled. One dark night the two bumped into each other. They dropped their sacks and embraced one another.

Moral of the story:
"If Beings knew, as I know, the fruit of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their use without sharing them". (Buddhism: Itivuttaka 18)



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