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Beaten for Nothing but Still Grateful

News 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!”

   

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