A tale from the Bhagavata Purana:
A crow once flew into the sky with a piece of meat in its beak. Twenty crows set out in pursuit of it and attacked it viciously.
The crow finally let the piece of meat drop. Its pursuers then left it alone and flew shrieking after the morsel.
Said the crow, "I've lost the meat and gained this peaceful sky."
Said a Zen monk,
"When my house burned down I got an unobstructed view of the moon at night!"
Anthony de Mello
A crow once flew into the sky with a piece of meat in its beak. Twenty crows set out in pursuit of it and attacked it viciously.
The crow finally let the piece of meat drop. Its pursuers then left it alone and flew shrieking after the morsel.
Said the crow, "I've lost the meat and gained this peaceful sky."
Said a Zen monk,
"When my house burned down I got an unobstructed view of the moon at night!"
Anthony de Mello
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