The Harmony



Once, three monks gathered at an unattended lonely temples. "Why is this temple so unattended?", nobody knew who started the conversation, but then, "Must be because the monks do not have the sincerity in doing the prayers and rituals that the deities did not showed them their miraculous powers.", answered the first monk. "Must be that the monks here are not hardworking enough that the temple was left unattended," explained second monk. "Must be because of the monks living here do not respect one another that the followers grew few," added the third monk



Three of them argued...until that they decided to live in that temple to see who was the truest. The first monk do prayers, ceremonies, rituals sincerely, the second monk fixed and renovated the temple, and the third monk went preaching out to the public. Time passed and the temple became a very crowded well known temple.



"This all happened because of my sincerity in prayers that the deities decided to help and grant me miracles," said the first monk. "No, because of my hard work working on the temple that it looked so magnificent and beautiful," replied the second monk. "Of course because of me who goes out

teaching truths and preaching that our followers grow even larger everyday," the third monk explained.



Day and night they kept arguing, and cared less of the temple condition. They did not realized that they began to neglect the temple's prosperity and was more concerned with their egoistic pride. Time passed again and the

temple returned to its former condition, it was then as unattended as it once was before.



*The three monks left the temple, they realized and concluded that the temple was unattended not because of anything, but because there was lack of harmony within the people inside