Story of a monk and apprentice

• lestersia

  1 Feb 02, 16:03

  A monk and his apprentice are walking and they saw a maiden calling for help. Seeing that she had sprained her ankle badly, the monk offered to carry her in his arms and send the maiden back.
  
  The apprentice was shocked but remained speechless all the way. The maiden got back home and thanked the monk.
  
  After half a day, the apprentice asked, "Why did you carry the maiden that closely?" and the monk replied "Why are you still carrying the thoughts with you after such a long time?"
  
  Dwelling too much on the past incidents causes stress in your life. It is the danger of leaning backwards too much in your life and not advancing forwards in your life.
• smiggy

  1 Feb 02, 21:17

  I think the story is not very relevant in its conclusion leh
• FireIce

  1 Feb 02, 22:51

  ur 'moral of the story' is wrong lah
  
  it is suppose to mean tt some ppl do things and when its over, they can let go while some others (ppl who are not involved in the thing) keep dwelling on it
  
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• Bear

  2 Feb 02, 06:15

  There's no such thing as truth, only interpretations....
  
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• Wizard_Gandalf

  3 Feb 02, 07:43

  How come your story seem so familiar??
• eagle

  12 Feb 02, 01:04

  I think I am like the apprentice, always dwelling on past issues.
  
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  Thomas Edison definition of genius :
  "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration"
  
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  The Eagle
  
  He clasps the crag with hooked hands:
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
  
  The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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• brian

  12 Feb 02, 13:20

  Sometimes we have to look back at our mistakes and learn from it and we also have to remember to move on at the right time
• rckong

  14 Feb 02, 16:31

  Originally posted by lestersia:

  Dwelling too much on the past incidents causes stress in your life. It is the danger of leaning backwards too much in your life and not advancing forwards in your life.

  this quote like not right leh...
  
  tot its suppose to tell ppl that if u r doing things out of righteou, u wunt be having non-righteous thought of that act...
  
  jus like the little monk... his tot is only on contact with the lady, instead of helping the lady... so even if he is not carrying the lady closely, his tot of contact with the lady is a sin to his religious liaw...
  
  unlike the mature monk, his tot is simply helping, contact is no longer existing in his mind, he is no longer bothered by lust...
  
  so think the story is telling us something like that... isn't it??