Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: You told it so beautifully, would you mind telling that story
again? I know that your folks that are over on your side there have
probably heard this, but I just thought it was a great story. And in
fact this might even be a story that could go in our book, just
somewhere.
WIZARD: Yeah, that was just on my mind; this program with
Regina, would be a really nice chapter.
TRIP: Regina, tell that story about the monk in the village. I agree
Wizard.
REGINA AKERS: Sure. Yes, the story is that there was a monk,
and he lived in a village and he was very well respected, and he
had lots of followers who would come and listen to him every day.
There was a young girl who lived in the same village, and she
became pregnant by the boy next door. But when her parents
questioned her, she was afraid to admit that the boy next door was
the father, so she said it was the monk. And the parents became
outraged, and they took the baby when it was born to the monk,
and they said that he was the father, and they gave the baby to
him. And all he said was, "Is that so?" [Laughs] And he took the
baby. And of course there was outrage in the village; all of his
followers saw him as nothing but a great big fake, everything he
said was not true, they all abandoned him, and he spent the next
year just lovingly raising that child.
After about a year the girl was just eaten up with guilt about this
lie that she had told, and so she finally went to her parents and
admitted that the father was the boy next door. And the parents
were just appalled what they had done of accusing the monk. So
they went back to the monk and said that he was not the father,
and that they wanted the child back. And again the monk just
said, "Is that so", and gave the child back without any attachment
from this year of a loving relationship.
The moral of the story, at least for me, is that enlightenment,
although I don't really have a lot of meaning for that word, so I
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