There once was a temple that had a cat. Whenever the monks would take their customary walk around the temple, this cat would interrupt them (crossing their path? Demanding attention? Making noise?). Therefore, the head monk gave the order that whenever it was time for the customary walk, someone had the duty to take the cat to the other end of the garden and tie it to a tree. For many years, they carried out this practice and it became one of the fundamental tasks of this order. Years later, the head monk died. The cat also died. The monks of this temple bought another cat to the temple so that they could tie it to a tree during the daily walks, so that the fundamental practice would continue to be correctly observed. Many years later, another head monk wrote a treatise about the importance of tying cats to trees during the daily walk.


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