Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening.
It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides.
At one street a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk across because of a large
puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to her, lifted her, and then dropped her off
on the other side of the road. After that he continued on his way to the monastery.
In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and asked,
“Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman?”
The elder monk answered “Yes, brother.”
Then the younger monk asks again, “But then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the
roadside?”
The elder monk smiled at him and told him, “I lifted her to the other side of the road,
but you are still carrying her.”
