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- "Long time ago in China, there was a young man
- His hobby was to shoot birds with catapult
- Everyday he would maim or kill the birds
- After his death, the Emperor of the underworld
- Sentenced him to three live times of sufferings
- The first life, he would be blind after a certain age
- Because he took away lives of mother birds
- Making them unable to feed their baby birds
- The second life, he would be crippled after a certain age
- Because he maimed thousands of birds
- And the third, he would be struck by lightning
- In his first rebirth, after a certain age
- He worked for a boss who reared thousands of cows
- He took good care of the cows
- And developed care and sympathy towards them
- His heart became purer each passing day
- He did charity with great effort
- There was a small river near his place
- Looking at the difficulty of the people crossing it
- He volunteered to use his saving and effort
- To build a bridge
- His boss helped him a little in the cost of building the
bridge
- Almost completed, a small nail flew up after being hit
- And blinded his left eye, however he continued
- Upon completion he slipped, fell and hit a rock
- He became crippled
- During the celebration of the completion
- His boss requested him to cut the ribbon on a cloudy day
- Upon cutting the ribbon, a lightning struck and killed him
- Everybody wondered why a good and kind man like him
- Had to die such a terrible death
- His boss cried and said
- ‘Good heart but struck by lightning’
- One day the ‘boss’ was invited to the palace
- To celebrate the birth of a prince, when he looked at the
prince
- The prince smiled and opened his palm, in there written
- ‘Good heart but struck by lightning’
- His punishments were settled in one life instead of three
- And returned as a prince because of his good hear."
- So do not envy those born lucky
- Or wonder why people have to die sometimes painfully
- Even when they are good
- They have their own reasons
- God is fair, only human not
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