Monks A and B were walking along the road when they saw a young woman having trouble jumping over a stream. B thought that it was not good that A held the woman. After a while, he said, “It is not good to hold a woman.”
B “It is not good to hold a woman.” A “Hm? A woman? Where is she?” B “You held me at the creek just now!” A “Oh, I sure held him. And I dropped him off by the river. You were still holding it.”
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