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154, Master Tells Jokes
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Jhongli, Formosa • February 25, 1989
(originally in Chinese) Videotape 49
A
man committed a crime and was arrested by the county magistrate. He
was sentenced to be flogged a hundred times and was terrified. Fortunately,
he was rich so that he was able to bribe the magistrate and pay someone
to take the punishment in his stead, offering a hundred taels of silver
to a poor man to stand in for him. Tempted by the money, the poor
man agreed so the magistrate released the rich man.
After
thirty lashes, the poor man couldn’t withstand the pain any
longer and used the money he had received to bribe the magistrate
to let him go. Upon his release, the poor man went to offer his thanks
to the rich man who was supposed to have been punished. “I’m
very grateful to you. Had it not been for the money that you gave
me, I would have been beaten to death!”
