{"id":10849,"date":"2014-07-21T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-08-18T02:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T02:49:57","slug":"the-priest-and-the-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2014\/07\/21\/the-priest-and-the-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priest and the Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One evening as the Buddhist priest, Shichiri Kojun, was reciting his sutras, a man with a knife crept up behind him.&#8220;Give me your money!&#8220; the man threatened. Without turning his head, Shichiri answered, &#8222;Do not disturb me. You will find the money in the cupboard near the wall.&#8220; And then he resumed his recitation. A few moments later, Shichiri paused and called: &#8222;Don&#8217;t take it all, though. I need to pay my taxes tomorrow.&#8220; The man returned a few coins to the cupboard and started towards the door. As he opened it, he heard Shichiri say, &#8222;Thank a person when you receive a gift.&#8220; The man called over his shoulder, &#8222;You are thanked,&#8220; and he fled into the dark night. Within a few weeks, the man was arrested for theft. At his trial, Shichiri appeared with many others who claimed that the man had stolen from them. When it was Shichiri&#8217;s turn to testify, he was asked if the accused man had stolen anything. Shichiri replied, &#8222;No. He entered my house. He asked me for money. I told him that it was in my cupboard. He took some. And then he thanked me for it.&#8220; When the man finished his prison term, he went to Shichiri and became his disciple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One evening as the Buddhist priest, Shichiri Kojun, was reciting his sutras, a man with a knife crept up behind him.&#8220;Give me your money!&#8220; the man threatened. Without turning his head, Shichiri answered, &#8222;Do not disturb me. You will find the money in the cupboard near the wall.&#8220; And then he resumed his recitation. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11275,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions\/11275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}