tale 15 I did the
same as you
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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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Freitag, 13. März 2020
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