Better Cities:Monks and Women

Book Information Monks and Women
ID	xx0982DE
	25		1.0
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Found in the following locations: Sold by book merchants and found in random containers as loot. Carried by Brother Cunningus.

Monks and Women

A lesson on flexibility of thought.

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One day two monk were returning to their monastery. Their path was crossed by a river, which, due to the rains, had overflowed.

There was a young woman on the bank who also needed to get to the opposite bank, but she could not without help.

The vow strictly forbade the monks to touch women, and the young monk defiantly turned away from her. The old monk approached the woman, took her in his arms and carried her across the river.

The monks remained silent for the rest of the way, but at the monastery the young monk could not resist: "How could you touch a woman!?

You made a vow!" To which the old monk calmly replied: "Strange, I carried her across the river and left her on the river bank, and yet you still carry her now."