[无量香光 · 显密文库 · 手机站]
fowap.goodweb.net.cn
{返回首页}


Salty Liquor [Foolishness]
 
{返回 Buddhist Tales For Young & Old 文集}
{返回网页版}
点击:1694

Salty Liquor
[Foolishness]

Once upon a time, there was a tavern owner in Benares. He had a hard working bartender, who was always trying to be helpful by inventing new ways of doing things.

One hot day, the tavern owner wanted to bathe in a nearby river. So he left the bartender in charge while he was gone.

The bartender had always wondered why most of the customers ate a little salt after drinking their liquor. Not wishing to show his ignorance, he never bothered to ask them why they did this. He did not know that they ate the salt in order to chase away the aftertaste of the liquor. He thought it needed salt to taste good.

He wondered why taverns did not add salt to their liquor. He decided that if he did so, the business would make much higher profits, and the tavern owner would be very pleased. So he added salt to all the liquor!

To his surprise, when the customers came to the tavern and drank the salty liquor, they immediately spit it out and went to a different bar.

When the owner returned from his dip in the river, he found his tavern without customers, and all his liquor ruined.

So he went and told this story to his friend, an adviser to the king. The adviser said, "The ignorant, wishing only to do good, often cannot help doing harm."

The moral is: The best intentions are no excuse for ignorance.


{返回 Buddhist Tales For Young & Old 文集}
{返回网页版}
{返回首页}

上一篇:The Magic Priest and the Kidnapper Gang [Power and Greed]
下一篇:Watering the Garden [Foolishness]
 The Heaven of 33 [Chapter 2. Compas..
 A Mothers Wise Advice (Non-violence..
 A Motherless Son (Betrayal)
 Prince Goodspeaker and the Water De..
 Roaring Bulls With No Fight (Chapte..
 Demons in the Desert [The Correct W..
 The Baby Quail Who Could Not Fly Aw..
 The Green Wood Gatherer (Laziness)..
 The Mystery of the Missing Necklace..
 Best Friends [The Power of Friendsh..
全文 标题
 
【佛教文章随机阅读】
 四重缘起深般若 第四章 如来藏 7 法界赞[栏目:谈锡永居士]
 老二哲学 老二哲学[栏目:往事百语]
 圆满这一世的相遇[栏目:菩提洲·佛子心语]
 生活简单更容易幸福[栏目:佛网文摘]
 玛尔巴[栏目:藏传佛教人物]
 观待对导师的信心与缘分[栏目:普巴扎西仁波切]


{返回首页}

△TOP

- 手机版 -
[无量香光·显密文库·佛教文集]
教育、非赢利、公益性的佛教文化传播
白玛若拙佛教文化传播工作室制作
www.goodweb.net.cn Copyrights reserved
(2003-2015)
站长信箱:yjp990@163.com