The Burden

Jesus, when Blogger shits the bed, it really goes whole hog. It's been crunked and disorderly for like 2 days now...Whatever. I guess you get what you pay for, right?

Since this shitty, free web publishing application simply ATE my last post all about the Protect Marriage Bullshit that is going on in this fine nation of ours </sarcasm> I'm just going to post a nice, unrelated Buddhist allegory that I think we can all do well by:

THE BURDEN

Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk accross because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to a her lifted her in his alms and left her on the other side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery.

In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, "Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman ?"

The elder monk answered "yes, brother".

Then the younger monk asks again, " but then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the roadside ?"

The elder monk smiled at him and told him " I left her on the other side of the road, why are you are still carrying her? "