There once was a kid. He was walking around town when he heard a strange noise coming from the mountain by his house. Curious, he walked all the way to the top, where he found a temple.?He knocked on the door, and a monk answered it. "What was that noise?" he asked the monk.
"Sorry, you're not a monk, I can't tell you," the monk says.
Disappointed, the kid walked all the way back down the mountain.? A few years later, the kid was now a young teenager. He was biking around town, when he heard the strange noise again. Curious, he biked all the way to the top, where he found the temple. Hoping that he'll find his answer this time, he knocked on the door.? A different monk answered it, not that the kid could tell, and he asked, "What was that noise?"
"Sorry, you're not a monk, I can't tell you," the new monk said, shaking his head.
Upset, the kid huffed and biked back down the mountain.?
A different monk answered it from last time, not that he could tell, nor did he care, and he asked, "What's that noise?"
"Sorry, you're not a monk, I can't tell you," this monk said apologetically. With an annoyed noise, the teenager climbed back into his car and went back home.?Now, the teenager was an adult and working a respectable job, leaving home, when he came back for a visit. He heard the strange noise again, and his curiosity was eating at him, so he drove up the mountain carefully and parked by the temple, walking out and knocking on the door.?What was that noise?" he asked.
"Sorry, you're not a monk, I can't tell you," a monk said.
"How can I become a monk then?" asked the man, genuinely curious about the noise.
"You must travel and count every blade of grass and every grain of sand," replied the monk. "Return and tell me the number, and you will become a monk."?
So the man sets out on a journey, counting grass and counting sand carefully. It's many, many years, and when he finally returns, he walks up the mountain on foot and knocks on the door.
A monk answers it, and he tells the monk the number.?Congratulations," said the monk. "You are now a monk."
Relieved, the man followed the monk into the temple. "What was that noise?" he asked the monk, and the monk smiles and tells him.
What was the sound, do you know?
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