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The Parrot Who Carried Rice Home

12 min · India · Wisdom · Kindness

In a valley of terraced rice fields below the snow peaks, a watchman sets a soft snare for the one parrot who carries grain away, and learns from the bird’s quiet answer that what is given away is never truly lost.

Retold from Eastern Stories and Legends, by Marie L. Shedlock.

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Story 3 of The Quiet Temple, starting at 28:55.