Interesting Tale

This was an interesting tale about a Bhutanese Buddhist monk narrated to us by our guide Mr.Tandin Dorji while touring in Bhutan.

Once a Buddhist monk was walking through a forest where he was a accosted by a fair lady who refused to let him pass unless he fulfilled one of her 3 conditions:

• Either he had to marry her
• Or he had to kill and eat a goat that she had with her
• Or he had to drink a bottle of Ara (a local liquor brewed from red rice)

For a Buddhist monk, all 3 are forbidden as he vowed to a life of celibacy, his faith does not let him harm or kill other living beings, and as a monk he is not allowed to consume liquor. But since he was not left with any choice, he debated and decided that the best option for him was to drink the bottle of Ara, which is what he did.

And then in his drunken stupor, he ended up marrying the woman, and killing and eating the goat. You can figure out the moral of the story...