Monastery Life
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping
the other monks in copying the old canons and laws by hand.
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies,
not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head
abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a
small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In
fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent
copies.
The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for
centuries, but you make a good point, my son."
He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the
original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that
hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody
sees the old abbot.
So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He
sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing, "We missed
the "R" ! , we missed the "R" !"
His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying
uncontrollably.
The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?"
With A choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was...
CELEBRATE !!! "
Many Zen teachers, in their pride, vainly boast that they know
nothing,
but it is I alone who have truly succeeded in achieving total
ignorance....
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this joke i didn't get it at first until i have to read a few
times...chew on it...then burst out
laughing....lols......"celebate" (celibate?) and not
celebrate....did i get it right???
