Once, there lived a Holy Man. He
was poor and depended on alms. He would eat a little food and keep the rest in
a begging bowl, hung high up on a peg. A Mouse had seen this, and used to jump
up and help himself to the food.
One day, a friend of the Holy Man
visited him. After they had eaten, they started chatting. The Holy Man could
not concentrate and kept tapping on the ground with a stick to scare the Mouse
away.
The friend asked, “What are you
doing? Why don’t you listen to me, properly?” “Excuse me!” said the Holy Man.
“It’s just that dreadful Mouse! He eats away whatever food I manage to save.”
Wondering how the Mouse could jump so high, the friend said, “The Mouse must
have put aside a lot of food, which must give him extraordinary energy to jump
so high.”
They then, dug and found the hoard
of food that the Mouse had gathered and took it away.
The Mouse returned and found his hoard
of food missing, and was very sad. He lost all interest in stealing food from
the Holy Man’s bowl.
Identify the enemy’s source of strength to defeat him.
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