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When the father came home
in the evening, his children had long been waiting for him and were very
impatient. “Where have you been?” they asked him. “I did the same as you,” he
replied and began to tell them their evening tale.
I did the same as you
The sun had just come up
and was enjoyably warming the big belly of the monkey priest through the
window of the old banana temple. This was the stimulus, which produced the
feeling of hunger in his stomach. So, he got up to look for his servant monk
whether he had prepared his breakfast.
Recently, the young monk
had not been as reliable as earlier. Very often, the old priest found him
sitting and dreaming under a tree near the fountain not far from the temple.
Therefore, he went to see whether he could catch up with him there.
When he got to the water
spring, he suddenly stopped. There, he was! His young monk was chatting with
a beautiful young monkey girl. The priest remained behind a bush and observed
the scene. While the young monkey ran his fingers through the hair of the
girl, she washed his feet. The old priest knew that sooner or later, the
younger monk would leave him to live with the girl.
This was not the first
time that a young monkey had left him. While the priest stood there behind
the bush thinking about life, he was woken up by the loud laughter of the
young couple and then lifting his eyes he saw them kissing. Had the world
changed, he asked himself. He had lived in the temple for many years and not
been in the villages and visitors at his temple to ask for advice were rare.
Had he lost every kind of contact to the real world? He remembered when he
had been a child he was brought to the temple because his parents were very
poor. The then old priest accepted him and taught him every essential about
being a monk. When the old priest left for heaven, he took his place and had
never again left the temple. It had been a simple but pleasant life without
events or happenings, praying every day and receiving food from the villages
in the region. The old priest decided to visit some of the villages in the
surrounding.
When he arrived at one of
the villages, he saw some children playing with a ball. He observed them for
a certain time and then by accident, the ball fell to his feet. The children
looked at him with astonishment because they had never seen him before. The
priest was quick in deciding, he kicked the ball and the children screamed
“goal”. That afternoon the old monkey spent with the children playing that
kind of ball game and really enjoyed it.
When he at last came home
to his temple, the young monkey monk had been waiting for him for a long
time. “Where has my master been?” asked the young. The old was covered with
mud and sweat and answered, “I did the same as you, my dear friend.” The monk
was very surprised and accompanied the priest to the fountain and when they
had washed, they sat down and began to eat. During the meal, the young looked
at the old eating with great hunger and observed a strange but satisfied
smile around his mouth.
The next day, the priest
disappeared again. That time, he came to a field where people were working.
He observed them for some time and then took one of the hoes and began to
work on the field. The monkeys there didn’t know him but made space for him
to work with them. At midday, they sat down for lunch and invited the
newcomer in strange clothes to participate.
In the evening, the
priest went home again carrying a hoe with him which the people had given
him. The monk had a strange expression on his face when he saw his master,
but he didn’t dare to ask anything. They went to the fountain together,
washed and then began to eat. Anew, the old ate with great hunger and a
strange, satisfied smile around his mouth.
The next morning, the
monk decided to follow his master from a certain distance to observe him. The
old monkey walked for a long while until he reached a village. He sat down on
one of the rocks behind a bush and started to observe the life in the
village. He had also noticed his young companion following him. The monk as
well tried to find an appropriate place to discover what the priest was
looking at.
In front of one of the
houses, children were playing, then a female monkey came out and when she saw
her male, she started quarrelling with him. But after some minutes, they
seemed to have found a solution to their trouble and hugged each other.
In a moment of
inattentiveness, the priest had left his rock and creeped over to the monk’s
observing place. So suddenly, when he appeared beside him, the young was rather
surprised and embarrassed. “Is that the life you are longing for?” the old
asked. The young lowered his eyes, because the priest had read his thoughts.
After a time, they went home to their temple together, washed at the fountain
and then began to have their evening lunch. Soon they went to bed without
talking.
The sun had just got up
when the monk stepped out of the temple. He was very surprised seeing the
priest working with the hoe. First, he just stood there not knowing what to
do, but then he joined the old working on the field because he had read the
thoughts of the old, “the young needed a house to found a family and the old
didn’t want to lose a friend.”
The children understood
their father, hugged him and fell asleep.
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Saturday, 26 October 2019
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