Two Monks in the Frontier of Sichuan
There lived two monks in the frontier of Sichuan: one poor and the other rich. One day the poor monk said to the rich one:
“I’m thinking of going to Nanhai. What do you think of it?”
“On what do you depend for going there?” asked the rich monk. “A bottle and a basin will suffice me,” answered the other.
“Well, I have been entertaining the idea of taking a boat and setting off for there for many years, but have failed thus far. How can you go without any support?”
One year later the poor monk returned from Nanhai and told his travels to the rich one, who was put to shame to hear it.
It is so many thousand miles from the frontier of Sichuan to Nanhai. The rich monk failed to go, but the poor one went. Couldn’t we make up our minds to do something as the poor monk of the frontier of Sichuan did?