BUDDHISM TODAY
One day, a famous government official, who was also
a poet, was passing along a road. He saw an old
monk teaching Buddhism. This was hardly unusual
except that the monk was seated on a tree branch.
The official asked the elderly monk what he was doing.
After all, the monk was in a very precarious position.
One wrong move and he could fall to his death!
The monk replied that the official’s position was