i found this story very interesting...
NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU ANGRY AFTER WATCHING THIS STORY
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Re: NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU ANGRY AFTER WATCHING THIS STORY
There's a nice variant of this story in, I think, Steve Hagen's Buddhism Plain and Simple.
A guy drives out to the wilderness in his soft-top sports car and camps out overnight. Disturbed by tearing sounds in the night, he wakes to find the soft top to his car ripped right open. Naturally, he is incandescent with rage - robbed in such a remote spot! That's terrible!
Then on closer inspection he sees that his watch and other valuables have not been taken from the car. That's even worse! Wanton, mindless vandalism!
On still closer inspection, he sees that they have just shredded a packet of biscuits he left in the car, and left crumbs all over the seats. Ah, a raccoon! That's kind of understandable! Poor creature was probably hungry and scented the biscuits...anyway, a good story to tell when he gets back home...
A guy drives out to the wilderness in his soft-top sports car and camps out overnight. Disturbed by tearing sounds in the night, he wakes to find the soft top to his car ripped right open. Naturally, he is incandescent with rage - robbed in such a remote spot! That's terrible!
Then on closer inspection he sees that his watch and other valuables have not been taken from the car. That's even worse! Wanton, mindless vandalism!
On still closer inspection, he sees that they have just shredded a packet of biscuits he left in the car, and left crumbs all over the seats. Ah, a raccoon! That's kind of understandable! Poor creature was probably hungry and scented the biscuits...anyway, a good story to tell when he gets back home...