A brand new monk begins dwelling on the most important monk headquarters.
He’s in command of the copying of holy texts. He notices that all the monks are copying copies of their sacred texts.
He goes to the top monk, “If there’s an error in one of many copies, all the subsequent copies may have the identical error.”
The top monk replies, “We’ve got been doing it this manner for hundreds of years, however I perceive your concern.” So he heads to the cellar to test all the most important copies towards the unique texts.
Hours later no-one has seen him they usually start to get nervous.
They ship a monk to the cellar to test on him. He finds him sitting and weeping subsequent to their most important textual content.
He asks the top monk, “What’s mistaken? What did you discover?”
The top monk seems to be at him with ache in his eyes,
“It says rejoice!”