A Buddhist Tale

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A Buddhist shrine is on a mountain at the top, and the water is brought in large barrels from the spring, which is at the mountain's foot. At the beginning there was only one monk, he carried the water alone and got by fine; after a while a new monk came and the two started to quarrel over who should do it; but when the third monk came to the shrink, they fought so much that they broke the barrels.

一個和尚挑水喝，兩個和尚搶水喝，三個和尚没水喝

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(I found this story on a Duolingo page)




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