Japanese folklore

Classes-3rd to 5th

English:  Japanese Folklore

  The Mirror and the Monkey

       In a quiet village in Japan, there lived a wise old monk who owned a beautiful mirror. This mirror was said to reveal the true nature of anyone who looked into it. The villagers often visited the monk to look into the mirror, curious to see their true selves.

     

     One day, a mischievous monkey managed to sneak into the monk's house while he was away. The monkey, fascinated by the shiny object, gazed into the mirror. What it saw was another monkey staring back at it. 



     The monkey thought it was seeing another monkey and became very angry, thinking the monkey in the mirror was mocking it.The monkey started to scream and attack the mirror, trying to fight off the reflection. It scratched and hit the mirror furiously, but the "other monkey" did the same. The louder the monkey screamed, the louder the reflection screamed back. The more it attacked, the more the reflection attacked back.

   

     The villagers, hearing the commotion, rushed to the monk's house and found the monkey exhausted and bewildered in front of the shattered mirror. They couldn't help but laugh at the monkey's confusion and rage against its own reflection.

    The wise monk returned and simply said, "What you see in the mirror is what you are."The story ends there. 

   💐💐Attitude Designs Life 💐💐



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  1. Great morality about ATTITUDE..!💐🌹💐🌹💐🌹💐🤝🤝

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