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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Big Babooba" data-source="post: 574704" data-attributes="member: 5402">A man is driving down the road and breaks  down near a monastery.. Hegoes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and  says, My car brokedown.. Do you think I could stay the night?The  monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix hiscar. As the  man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; asound like no other  that he has ever heard. The next morning, he asksthe monks what the sound  was, but they say, We can't tell you becauseyou're not a monk.The  man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about hismerry way. Some  years later, the same man breaks down in front of thesame  monastery.The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his  car..That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he  hadheard years earlier.The next morning, he asks what the sound was,  but the monks reply,We can't tell you because you're not a  monk.The man says, all right, all right. I'm dying to know.If  the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become amonk, how do I  become a monk?The monks reply, you must travel the earth and tell us how  many bladesof grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you  findthese numbers, you will become a monk.The man sets about his  task. Some forty-five years later, he returnsand knocks on the door of the  monastery. He says, I have travelled theearth and devoted my life to the  task demanded and have found what youhad asked for. There are  371,145,236,284,232 blades of grass and231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles  on the earth.The monks reply, congratulations, you are correct, and you  are nowconsidered a monk .We shall now show you the way to the  sound.The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says,  thesound is behind that door.The man reaches for the knob, but the  door is locked. He asks, May Ihave the key ?The monks give him the  key, and he opens the door.Behind the wooden door is another door made  of stone... The manrequests the key to the stone door.The monks give  him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door madeof ruby. He demands  another key from the monks, who provide it. Behindthat door is another door,  this one made of sapphire. And so it wenton until the man had gone through  doors of emerald,......silver, topaz, and amethyst.Finally, the  monks say, This is the key to the last door .The man is relieved to be  at the end. He unlocks the door, turns theknob, and behind that door he is  astonished to find the source of thatstrange sound. It is truly an amazing  and unbelievable sight.. But I can't tell you what it is because  you're not a monk.</blockquote>

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