Chennai
Sometime much later, the other monk said to his companion, “Did you forget that it is against the rules to touch a woman? Have you forgotten the vows you have taken?”
The other monk answered, “Brother, I left the young woman on the bank of the river once we crossed. Why are you still carrying her in your mind?”
Moral: You don’t need regulations or restrictions to have morals. If you cannot determine love and compassion from apathy and indifference, then you lack empathy not rules.
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