Salty Liquor
[Foolishness]
Once upon a time, there was a tavern owner in Benares. He had
a hardworking bartender who was always inventing new ways of doing things. One
hot day, the tavern owner wanted to take a bath in a nearby river. So he put
the bartender in charge of the tavern while he was away.
Now, the bartender wondered why most of the customers always
took a bit of salt after drinking their alcohol. Not wishing to demonstrate his
ignorance, he never bothered to ask them why they did this. He did not know
that they ate the salt in order to remove the aftertaste of the liquor.
Thinking the customers ate the salt to make the liquor taste
good, he wondered why taverns did not add salt to their liquor. He decided that
if he did this, the business would make more money, and the tavern owner would
be very pleased. So he added salt to all the liquor! To his surprise, when the
customers came to the tavern and drank the salty liquor, they spit out the
drink immediately and went to a different bar.
When the owner returned from his dip in the river, he found
his tavern empty of customers and all his liquor ruined. He recounted this
story to his friend, an adviser to the king. “The ignorant, wishing to do good,
often cannot help but cause harm instead,” said the adviser.
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