Elis James
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Ellis.
A drunken man visits his friend's house.
He stays.
They talk, he eats, he drinks, he becomes drunk.
He passes out.
His friend has to leave in the morning on a business trip.
and sews a rare jewel into his clothes.
The businessman leaves to go off and do his work and the drunken man wakes up hungover, also leaves the house and travels from one place to another begging for basic necessities.
OK.
Later, the drunken man returns to his friend's house and his friend tells him that all along...
There was a priceless jewel sewn into his clothes.
Ah.
Ah.
No.
The jewel doesn't represent wealth.
Of course it does.
It's a jewel.
It represents spiritual enlightenment.
The drunken man represents people who are trapped in self, in sort of self-fulfillment.
And the businessman represents the Buddha, and the clothes represent ignorance that hides us from the knowledge.