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Story of Real Life Monk .. Itz the Hidden Success in All of Us
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STORY OF REAL LIFE MONK .. ITZ THE HIDDEN SUCCESS IN ALL OF US .. READ THRU FULLY ..

A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?

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The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car.
As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; a sound like no other that he has ever heard.
The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, We can't tell you. You're not a monk.

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The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery.

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The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.

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That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard years earlier.

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The next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply,

We can't tell you. You're not a monk.

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The man says, All right, all right. I'm dying to know.

If the only way I can find out what that sound was, is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?

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The monks reply, you must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk.

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The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery.. He says, I have traveled the earth and devoted my life to the task demanded and have found what you had asked for. There are 371,145,236, 284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219, 999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth.

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