Today is the birthday of Buddha and is widely celebrated throughout the world, it is also the night of the full moon, May 8,2009.

Two Monks are walking and encounter a young lady in a white dress, she is going to a wedding. The young lady encounters a mass of mud in her path and asks one of the monks if he could carry her across the mud as she does not want to soil her dress.

One of the monk's picks up the young lady and carries her across the mud and sets her down, dress unsoiled.

As the monks are walking back to their temple the other monk says "brother, I think it was wrong for you to carry that young lady over the mud."

The monk replies, "Brother, I stopped carrying that young lady an hour ago, why do you still carry her?"