he should be thankful

HIYA!

A funny thing happened to me on the way to a temple the other day! It was about six pm and I wanted to, one, get out of the rain, and two, settle down for the evening. I stopped at the only temple around to ask to stay the night. There was only one monk there and he was not the abbot so he had no authority to let me stay there the night. The abbot would not be back for a while.

We talked a little bit. He asked about me. I told him a little. He said he didn't believe me. I told him that I was not rich but he didn't believe me. He said that all the foreigners he'd seen come to Thailand were rich. (How would he know anyway?)

So I said to him, "Look, you're a man who studies the truth, right?" He said that he was. I said to him, "A person with wisdom knows that anytime most people are any one way, there are always people who aren't that way, right?" He said that this was so. "So" I said, "I'm telling you I'm not rich. I'm not."

He should be thankful that a foreigner had the balls to tell him off politely! And to teach him a thing or two. I wasn't arrogant or anything but I told him frankly.

Troy.