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Date Posted: 22:03:41 04/28/02 Sun
Author: ~Steve-o
Subject: Enlightenment

A man who had lost his family and his home in a terrible mud slide made a journey of many days to a buddhist temple to speak with the master. He said, "Teacher, tell me, why do good people meet with bad fortune?"

The master replied, "Good fortune, bad fortune, who can tell? Once, there was a boy, his father's only son, and his father owned a great farm. One day, the boy was out riding a horse when he was thrown, and his leg was broken.

He cried to the gods, 'Why? I can not help my father on the farm if I have a bad leg! Why did this terrible fortune happen to us?'

The boy was devastated. But, not long after, war broke out with a neighboring village. All the young men of the village were required to fight. But the boy with the bad leg, he could not fight. All the young men were killed; but the boy with the bad leg, he was not killed.

But he was still a whiney bastard so the gods killed him anyway."

The man was enlightened.

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