by Yeiazel
The price of compassion
Mong Souen The prince was out hunting with some courtiers. They traquèrent a doe with her fawn. The hunters would catch up when at the last moment, their mother escaped by jumping over a muddy creek, and she bolted into the bushes. Her little hesitated to follow. The prince, impetuous, sprang like a tiger on the fawn and managed to capture him. He confided, not without hiding a smile of satisfaction, Hsi Pa Chin, a member of after him, for he returns to the palace. While it was passing a rope round the neck of the animal so you can get behind him, the prince mounted his horse and took the way back with the rest of his escort.
few hours later the prince sent for Chin Hsi Pa to ask how was the fawn and in which part of the park he had made.
The courtier bowed three times face against the ground and, without looking up, replied:
- That His Highness wants to be forgiven his poor servant. I let the deer escape!
- How is this possible?
- The doe followed us, and despite the danger, she came to lick her calf. I have not had the heart to separate them and I released the fawn.
Prince banged his fist against the armrest of his seat and, beside himself, cried
- You've disobeyed my orders! What insolence! You are banished from my kingdom. Get out immediately!
Three months later, the prince had returned from exile Chin Hsi Pa appointed him tutor.
A jealous courtier who was surprised that he rewards and impertinent to him brazenly disobeyed, the prince replied:
- If he felt compassion for a fawn, he surely will experience for my son. And this noble sentiment is not he the most valuable to send? Moreover, the venerable Lao Tzu did he not say
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