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The Meeting with a Dhamma Master : หน้า 24/164 A tale about a wise King, a Queen, and a knowledgeable hermit who helps resolve a kingdom's problem while facing challenges of acceptance.
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Once upon a time, a King and Queen lived in a castle, ruling wisely until a problem arose. The Queen urged the King to seek the guidance of a hermit on a neighboring mountain. After a long journey, the King received a clever solution from the hermit. Delighted, he invited the hermit to a banquet. However, upon arriving in his rags, the hermit faced ridicule from the other guests, prompting him to leave. Friends of the King intervened to defend the hermit, highlighting the theme of acceptance and respect for wisdom over appearances. The King and Queen learned valuable lessons about humility, kindness, and the importance of true wisdom, regardless of outward appearance. This story teaches us about how true worth is often hidden behind simple facades.
หัวข้อประเด็น
-King and Queen
-wisdom
-hermit
-problem-solving
-acceptance
-social status
ข้อความต้นฉบับในหน้า
Suzanne Jeffrey
The King and The Hermit
Once upon a time, there was a King and Queen who lived in a beautiful castle, high on top of a mountain. Most of the time, everything was quite sabai (calm) because they ruled their kindgom with great wisdom. However, one day something went terribly wrong, and even though the Queen consulted the King (as every Queen should, of course, in any tale of this sort) they could not come up with a solution to the problem. So the Queen asked the King to go to the adjacent mountain top where there lived an incredibly knowledgeable hermit. Well, the King ruminated (as any King would, being asked to do such a ridiculous thing) but, in order to please the Queen, he decided to do just that. (I’d call that a pretty wise King.)
Many days, and many miles later, the King arrived at the mountaintop of the hermit, whereupon he found the hermit sitting there in his cave waiting for the King. The King presented the problem to the hermit, and the hermit (being even wiser than the King and Queen) helped the King out by supplying him with a quick and easy solution to the problem.
Well, the King was so delighted with the ease of the answer that he invited the hermit to attend a banquet in his honor. "Oh, no," said the hermit. "I have nothing to wear to a banquet. Look at me. I am a hermit in rags. You do not want me to attend a banquet!" Whereupon the King refuted this with, "Of course we want you to attend. You have helped us solve our problem! You must come!” And so, they set the date and time for the banquet.
The King invited everyone in the kingdom to attend. On the given date, the hermit (having come down from the mountaintop in his rags) tried to enter the castle. When some of the guests, dressed in their finest clothes, saw the hermit, they began to laugh at him, pointed to him and his old rags, and taunted him with words that I cannot repeat here. And so, the hermit turned away to start his trip back up the mountain.
When some friends of the King saw what was happening to the hermit, they ran after
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