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There was a cruel king named Kalinga.
One warm spring day, he went out to play outside the palace with dozens of court ladies. The king's party reached a deep mountain and set up a playground to play. The king played with the court ladies and fell asleep, exhausted from pleasure.
The court ladies, exposed to the spring scenery where the water of life was rising, forgot the rule of not leaving the king's side and, seduced by the scent of spring, kept exclaiming, "Oh my! Oh my!" and went far away.
The court ladies wandered through the forest in a group and came across a shabby cave.
"I wonder if it's a wolf's den."
"No, a baby bear will live there." The women whispered and cautiously looked into the cave and saw a person sitting quietly there.
A calmness different from the greedy and angry wolves of the world radiated from the sage. The court ladies asked curiously.
"What are you doing here?"
"There's nothing you're doing."
"If you're doing nothing, why are you sitting here?"
To them, the clear and transparent appearance of the man, like a fairy, was a wonder, and they themselves felt their hearts clearing up. They ignored the gorgeous spring scenery and just sat down in the fragrance of the hermit. They forgot that they had to go back before the cruel king woke up.
When the king woke up, he couldn't see any of the court ladies. It was a moment when the king's eyes lit up.
"These guys are annoying. Where did they go, leaving me alone? It's okay if ants crawl on my body or dust settles, but what if a poisonous snake or tiger passing by found me and bit me? I'll catch these bitches and kill them."
The king, who was searching for the court ladies, soon arrived near the sage’s cave. He heard the voices of the five women inside the cave. When he got closer, he saw a man quietly talking about something in the middle of the court ladies sitting around, and the court ladies were listening intently.
“Oh, those women are not in love with me, but with another man. Fortunately, the clothes of both men and women are still intact. But isn’t that guy more handsome than me?”
The king’s eyes rolled back in jealousy and he shouted.
“Hey, you bitches, can you please step down from that place?”
The court ladies were startled and fell down in a panic, thinking that he was dead, but the sage sat there without any movement, just as he had been before the women found him.
The king asked with a grin.
“What are you doing alone in this mountain?”
The sage replied, "I do nothing."
"Where in the world is there anyone who does nothing? Even beggars beg, so you can't do nothing. Seeing that you live deep in the mountains, I guess you are a practitioner or something. What state have you reached?"
"I have not reached any state."
"Then what kind of practice are you doing?"
"I don't do any kind of practice."
"You impudent bastard! Are you only able to say 'I don't, I don't' like a parrot?"
"I study patience, but I don't even think about patience."
"You flirted with my maids. Did you have evil intentions after seeing those women?"
"I had no emotional disturbances, and even now, I have no emotional disturbances."
"Huh, you're a practitioner who hasn't reached any realm, but you're lying that you weren't moved by those flowery women? You're studying patience? Let's see how well you can endure, you idiot~."
I wanted to kill you because I was jealous that you flirted with my women. But it's even better since you're practicing humiliation. Since you're testing humiliation, you have a justification.
The king drew his sword and cut off the hermit's nose. Blood dripped from the cut like melted ice. But the hermit sat there without blinking. The poisoned king swung his sword and cut off both of his ears. Even so, the hermit didn't blink.
"Hey, look at this guy? Good. You're still a pretty good hermit, right? Let's see how far you can go as a hermit."
The king stabbed him in the eye and gouged out one of his eyes. The other eye of the sage was calm, without a trace of fear or hesitation.
"This damned bastard, how could such a bad guy exist in this world?"
The king, spitting out venomous words and growing increasingly venomous, gouged out the sage's remaining eye. The screams of the court ladies who witnessed this scene pierced the heavens, and some of them fainted.