The Three Laughing Monks: Dear Readers.. In China, there is this legend of the three laughing monks. They are also today sometimes referred to as the three laughing saints. These three laughing monks used to travel from village to village in China. They were poor and without worldly goods or fine clothing but were full of joy. In each village where they stopped, the monks would sit in the marketplace and laugh, and before very long everybody would be gathered around them, bellies shaking and tears running with the intensity of their laughter. The three laughing monks were loved and admired very much. As the years passed, the laughing monks’ fame grew and grew. All of China loved and respected them. Nobody had ever preached the way they did: with laughter and nothing else. They never laughed at anyone in particular, but rather as if they had understood a great cosmic joke. The three laughing monks spread joy all over China without using a single word. After living long lives...
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