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For years I had three wise monkeys seated on the table where I write.

They would greet me every morning when I first turned on the light. 

Reminding me in life…whatever my desires….wants and needs…

to do the best I can each day to avoid evil thought and deeds.

Reminding me that even though I’m just one person

I must do my part as well…

to help create a world of peace…where evil has no place to dwell.

One day while I was cleaning my writing table…

(as I had cleaned a hundred times before)

I dropped my three wise monkeys who shattered into pieces on the floor. 

I replaced those three wise monkeys with four little Buddhas

their message still as grand….

Three of the Buddhas matched the monkeys while the fourth

sits with a smile on his face…his cheek resting in his hand.

The fourth Buddha is my favorite…because he combines the other three…

his ‘Do No Evil’ is a message…every day he brings to me.

But not just to me…for if every person everywhere practiced ‘Do No Evil’

then everyone in every land

could contentedly sit with a smile on their face…

their cheek resting in their hand

As we journey through life their message is a profound but simple one…

apparently these four Buddhas know

If we pack our suitcases with peace, love, kindness, friendship and acceptance

then evil has nowhere to go.

And those three monkeys who no longer on my writing table dwell…

before giving way to the Buddhas left a message of their own as well…

That if we do nothing when se see evil being carried out

or evil being spoken…

How a life can easily be destroyed…and hearts forever broken.