As the story goes….there were two monks standing alongside a shallow river when a beautiful young lady came across them and asked for a favor.
“I really need to get to the other side,” the damsel in distress said. “would it be possible for one of you to carry me across so I don’t get my new clothes wet?”
The first monk said of course, he would help. But the second monk warned: “We took a solemn vow of complete chastity…we are not even supposed to look at a beautiful woman, let alone come into contact with one and carry her.”
Nevertheless the first monk carried out his good deed…and with the beautiful young girl in tow, her arms wrapped tightly around him, he waded through the water and carried her to the other side.
An hour later…as the two monks continued walking along, the second monk was still quite troubled by the actions of the first….”I still can’t believe you went against everything we were taught, everything we committed to….and carried that girl across the river…I must tell you that I’m still quite distraught by your actions.”
The first monk paused…then quietly said: “My good friend…I dropped the young lady off on the other side of the river an hour ago…you, on the other hand, still carry her.”
Well…it’s a good old story, anyway…and in case you didn’t quite grasp it all…the moral is that the one who can move on is always going to better off than the one who carries resentment along with them.
Now…for why we bring it up today.
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