( hoild | 2017. 09. 27., sze – 17:14 )

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Meeting the Buddha

A Buddhist Parable by Róbert Puzsér
Translated into English by István Belánszky

Once there was a monk in a monastery who heard of the Buddha's upcoming visit to a town that was two weeks travel from the monastery by foot. He and his fellow monks packed up for the trip and set off to meet the Buddha and partake of his teachings.

On a stormy night they took refuge in an inn. Next morning the monk heard that their host's flock of goats had been frightened by the storm and ran away. While his fellows were promptly on their way, he decided to stay and help the host search for the scattered flock.
- So what, I'll meet the Buddha one day later, it really makes no difference, - the monk thought to himself.

After a few more days of travel, while drawing water from a well, he met a sobbing woman. The woman told him that her husband died right before the harvest. How could she alone harvest the produce before it spoiled?
- So what, I'll meet the Buddha a few weeks later, he'll surely stay in town for that long, - the monk thought to himself, and stayed with the woman and her two small children to help with the harvest.

After three weeks he could leave them, ramping up his pace, hoping he could still catch up with the Buddha in the town.
One day's walking distance from town he crossed a forest path where he spotted a wounded deer. He provided food and water to the animal, dressed its wounds with mud, but however much he wanted to make haste he could not leave the hapless animal behind, so he stood by its side and nurtured it back to health.

By the time he could leave the forest he grew truly desperate:
- I am going to be late. I missed my chance of meeting with the Buddha, - the monk thought to himself.

In town the governor and his officials welcomed the monk:
- Oh Mighty Buddha, we are so glad of meeting you at last!

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