thin king

Good morning to all,


Wise Monkeys' Business

A monkey, named KaoAik, suddenly realised that he had matured and
had the ability to see things in their proper perspective. It occurred to
him that he was able to distinguish right from wrong. And being able to
know what is good and what is evil gave him a proud air to strut about.
He had become wise, he thought to himself.

One day, KaoAik met the wise old monkey, LauKao, sitting on a branch
of the big tree watching some young monkeys quarrelling and fighting.
KaoAik asked LauKao, "What is going on is evil, is it not?" LauKao, like
all wise beings who never gave a direct answer, replied,
"Evil is with him who evil sees."

KaoAik was puzzled by such an answer, but he knew better than to bother
LauKao further. He went away with a frown on his face. Later he met his
two friends, KaoGee and KaoSar. These two, noticing his perplexed
countenance, asked him about it. KaoAik explained the whole thing and
posed LauKao's answer to them. They also could not give him the answer.
But after discussing it among themselves, they figured that it must mean
that one learns evil by seeing evil. They also concluded that this theory
applies to the ears and the mouth. And all the three of them believed
themselves very wise.

Then they set about to stop evil from spreading. They found a place at
the crossroads, the main big tree where all monkeys pass by. They sat
in a row on the main branch, KaoAik covering his eyes, KaoGee covering
his ears and KaoSar covering his mouth. Since they see no evil, hear no
evil and say no evil, they would not spread evil. This was the message
they wanted to spread around. They were doing their moral civic duty.

Many monkeys passed by, but they thought that these three monkeys
were playing a game and ignored them. And LauKao also came by. To
Laukao, the act of the three of them covering their eyes, ears and mouth
with both their hands was very foolish, they could fall and injure
themselves.

LauKao spoke loudly, "What are you three doing, putting yourselves in
danger?" The three wise monkeys were rudely shocked, being scolded.
But, having got over that, they explained what they had learned from
him, and said that they were trying to stop evil from spreading.

But LauKao scolded them all the more,
"You fools! Evil is he who evil does !"


Once, there were SEE NO EVIL,
HEAR NO EVIL, SAY NO EVIL monkeys

Then, there came a DO NO EVIL monkey;
thus there are four wise monkeys !


Have a nice day.
Ronald Koh