The story of the truth is true.

In Japan there was a monk and nearby the temple there was a small house of an old lady who lives with her very beautiful daughter. Everyday her daughter will send a tiffin carrier for the monk.

One day, her daughter became pregnant and she thought that if she could not find the baby’s father, the gossip will start. So, when anyone asked who’s the father of the baby? She said the monk, maybe. Everyday, villagers came and asked the monk about this. Only response from the monk was, “is that so?”

Why wasn’t the monk surprise at all?

Because he believed in the truth, for 3-4 months when he was blamed being a father of the baby, he simply acknowledged without any surprise.

Didn’t that woman feel guilty?

At first, she did not care. She just wanted to create a diversion and made other confused, taking attention from her to the monk instead. Later, she could not eat or sleep because of the anxiety and guilt so she went to see the monk and apologized. She said to the monk that “I would like to offer my sincerest apology to you for which I had lied that you were the father of the baby.”

The next morning, villagers already knew the truth that the monk is innocent.

This story teaches that: Being a human, you cannot live above gossips, you simply have to focus and use the truth as your principle. It is not necessary to care what others say.