The two worlds

The two worlds, who was right?

In their past life, two friends had shared experiences on earth together before passing on. One was reincarnated as an angel living in heaven for upholding the 5 Precepts of Buddha’s Dharma.

Unfortunately, the other one was born as a fat maggot living in a stinking open toilet hole among million other maggots behind a Buddhist temple. The latter one, in his previous life, spent much of his time in Karaoke bars and was a terrible politician. He was lying through his teeth to be elected as a congressman and stole tons of money from his party’s members.

The fat maggot had no ideas where or what he was, but the angel knew exactly that he was in heaven. As an angel, he had capability to see, hear, feel, smell and taste everything in the universe. He learned that his former friend was born as a maggot and felt terrible.

One beautiful day, the angel flew down from heaven to visit his friend—the maggot.

“Maggot, Maggot, this is Angel, do you remember me?” The angel called his friend, holding his nose trying to block the disgusting odor steaming up from the toilet hole.

Swimming and squirming inside piles of wastes with thousands of friends, Maggot looked up to the angel and greeted him arrogantly.

“Hey, Angel, what do you want? I am busy having fun here; do you want to come down?” Maggot yelled up.

“No, no, thank you Maggot, in fact I want you to come up to heaven with me for a brief tour,” said Angel.“We have enormous place for you to visit, excellent food to enjoy and outstanding entertainments to give you the heavenly pleasures. Then we can go to pray with millions of angels and then we can fly from one world to the next across the entire universe to visit our friends,” Angel urged.

From down below, Maggot thumped his nose at Angel and exclaimed:“I don't want to be rude my old friend, but why do I have to do all of that just to get some pleasures? I am here with millions of friends, having more than enough food to enjoy, living together like one big family!” Maggot pointed to the thousand of his friends, male and female swimming in liquid excrements.And then he shouted out loud:

“You see, you see? I don’t even have to go to any Karaoke bars to enjoy women… Nor do I need to go to campaign for a stupid congressional seat…We, maggots, are here together; we can have each other whenever we want; so, get lost will you?”

Angel shook his head looking at his friend for the last time and flew back to heaven.