Mouth Full of Rice
A man visited his wife’s family, and noticed that they were hulling rice. The man, greatly desiring to eat some, waited until they left the room, and then grabbed some and put it in his mouth. But seconds later, his wife came back in the room. She asked him something, and the husband, with the rice still in his mouth, did not answer because he did not want to be embarrassed and have the rice discovered.
Noticing that her husband was not replying, the wife became confused and concerned, and she examined his cheeks. In a panic, she yelled out to her father, “My husband has some kind of disorder! There are strange bulges in his mouth, and he can’t speak!”
The father brought over a doctor, who examined the man and remarked, “This is a very dangerous condition, and we must take action immediately and cut this man’s cheek open.”
So he did, and then everyone watched as the rice fell out of the man’s mouth.
Like this example, people often do wrong actions, and then go to such greeat lengths to hide them that they often put themselves in even worse situations, and stubbornly persist in the wrong no matter how much misfortune it results in. They are like the man in this story who went as far as let his cheek be cut open because he was trying to avoid some shame—and at the end, his wrong action was revealed anyway.
A man visited his wife’s family, and noticed that they were hulling rice. The man, greatly desiring to eat some, waited until they left the room, and then grabbed some and put it in his mouth. But seconds later, his wife came back in the room. She asked him something, and the husband, with the rice still in his mouth, did not answer because he did not want to be embarrassed and have the rice discovered.
Noticing that her husband was not replying, the wife became confused and concerned, and she examined his cheeks. In a panic, she yelled out to her father, “My husband has some kind of disorder! There are strange bulges in his mouth, and he can’t speak!”
The father brought over a doctor, who examined the man and remarked, “This is a very dangerous condition, and we must take action immediately and cut this man’s cheek open.”
So he did, and then everyone watched as the rice fell out of the man’s mouth.
Like this example, people often do wrong actions, and then go to such greeat lengths to hide them that they often put themselves in even worse situations, and stubbornly persist in the wrong no matter how much misfortune it results in. They are like the man in this story who went as far as let his cheek be cut open because he was trying to avoid some shame—and at the end, his wrong action was revealed anyway.