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Why are you shouting and making so much fuss ? It must be your past karma -- that you had to fall in the well. So it is okay, accept it!' And he walked away....
He delivered a great philosophical sermon, but he walked away. The man could not believe it: 'Is this the moment to give me a sermon?' But the monk was a great preacher and he knew only one thing: how to preach.
Then came a confucian monk. He looked into the well and the man shouted, 'Save me! I am dying and nobody is hearing me!'
The confucian, the follower of confucius, said, 'Don't be worried! This will never happen again. I will go to the king. Bigger walls should be raised around the wells. This well has no wall around it -- that's why you have fallen in.'
Now, confucius believes in society, structure, improvement, progress. The monk said, 'Don't be worried -- nobody will ever fall again! We will make a great movement and great protest.'
But the man said, 'I will die!'
He said, 'That is not the point! The society has to be saved; individuals come and go.'
Then came a christian missionary. He immediately took a rope out of his bag, threw it into the well and brought the man out.
The man said, 'This is real religion! But how come? How is it that you were carrying the rope in your bag? The buddhist came, he talked great things and the confucian came and he said he would create a great revolution in the world, but they were not interested in me. '
The missionary said, 'I am also not interested in you. My master has said, "Serve humanity," because that is the only ladder that goes to heaven. You did well that you fell in the well -- I have earned great virtue. That's why I am carrying... I carry everything in my bag -- one never knows what is needed, where. And remember to teach your children also, so that they can fall in the well and missionaries can come and take them out -- otherwise nobody will go to heaven!'
They are not interested really in destroying others' misery -- they are enjoying it; it is a subtle pleasure. And they are enjoying the hell that they can give, that they can afford.
Next time, don't be sympathetic --
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