Wednesday, August 31, 2011

STORY OF THE CORDYLINE PLANT


“Oh Master, can you save our lives?”
A woman and her five young children cried
“What can I do for you?”
– “It is just simple, please, please don’t ring the morning bell”
Or we all have to go to hell...
 
The Monk did not wake his novice  to ring the bell as usual
He was praying quietly when his neighbor, a butcher   shouted in anger…
" I  rely on your morning bell to wake up and kill pigs to sell to the market
It is too late now, what can I do today!!!”


The Monk told the Butcher his dream last night
"A mother and five babies came to me and cried
And asked me to skip the bell to save their lives…"
“That’s nonsense!” the butcher said and went away…


He came home and saw his wife smile
“We are lucky, the pig had five babies. How nice!
It is so good that you didn’t kill her today…”
His wife looked at him in surprise
To see him so terrified...


The Butcher told his wife the story
The Monk told him this morning
The couple was filled with regrets
They had caused so many deaths...

The Butcher came to the pagoda to bare his heart to the Monk
He stuck his knife in the soil and raised his voice
“I never kill again for all my life”
His knife rested in peace
From Mother Land, right in that place, appeared a tree
It has bloody leaves
That look like knives
It is the Cordyline...



Once upon a time ....






















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