Post by twetch#3898

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

Profit and Loss for the Bulbul and the Wren:
The bulbul gathered the small birds together and said,"When you peck away at produce in the vegetable fields or eat berries in the gardens,you raise your voices unnecessarily and make a big noise calling back

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

your back would get stuck to the bottom trap and you'd be in an unexpected fix. So even you, lord bulbul, would get upset, raise a ruckus, get covered with lime, and be caught the same as us. Men of shallow brains in the world are all like the bulbul.

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14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch
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Once they achieve something using their own clever wit, they get proud and think they can continue on like that forever. How could anyone in the world be so stupid? A man will learn some skill, and after making doubly sure he's got it down, will use it

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch
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over and over again in vain, never understanding that that skill has no become his enemy and that he is inviting disaster."

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch
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"Long ago in China there was a king Wu who crossed the Yang tse river and climbed up Monkey Mountain. When the monkeys saw this, they scattered and ran away in all four directions. There was one monkey among them that did not flee,

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch
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but jumped up on a tree limb just like you'd toss up a ball. Demonstrating such skill he made little of the men below him. King wu notched an arrow and let it fly, but the monkey grabbed it in flight just like you'd pick something off the ground.

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