Children's Fable: The Three Monks

The Story of the Three Monks

Once upon a time there was a mountain, and on the mountain there was a broken temple, and one day a little monk came to the temple, and when he saw that there was no more water in the temple's water tank, he picked up water and filled up the tank, and filled up the Guanyin's bottle, so that the dried-up branches of the Yangzhi were finally restored to life. Every day, he picked water, recited sutras, knocked on the wooden fish, and did not let the rats come to steal at night, and lived a peaceful and comfortable life.

Soon there came a high monk. He was so thirsty that as soon as he arrived at the temple, he drank half a jar of water. The little monk asked him to go and fetch water. The high monk thought that it would be too much of a loss for him to go alone, and he asked the little monk to go with him to carry the water. So the two men carried a bucket to go down the mountain to get water, carry water when the bucket must be placed in the center of the stretcher, or not in the middle, the two men pushed and pushed, who do not want to put out a little more effort.

Later, there came a fat monk. He also wanted to drink water, but it happened that there was no more water in the tank. The little monk and the high monk let him pick, the fat monk picked a quart of water, put down the bucket immediately gulp big drink up, two buckets of water was drunk all.

Later, no one went to pick water, and from then on, the three monks had no water to drink.

Everyone read their own scriptures and knocked on their own wooden fish, and no one refilled the water bottle in front of the Goddess of Mercy, and the willow branches withered. The rats came out to steal at night, and no one cared. As a result, the rats knocked over the candlestick and started a big fire. The monks panicked, and the three monks then fought together to put out the fire, which was extinguished and they awakened.

From then on, the three monks worked together, and naturally had water to drink.