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 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, but you are still carrying her.”