The Three Monks :)

Hello again.. last class we watched an awesome video...thanks to our beloved Dr. Mandi (Professor Prasad,NITIE) for it..hope you guys will also love it. The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb:" One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water."^[ The film does not contain any dialogues, allowing it to be watched by any culture, and a different music instrument was used to signify each monk. The film tells the story from the aspect of the buddhist bhikkhu(monk) . Catch it here..

For those who didnt get the time watching the vedio...let me tell you what its all about.. :)

A young monk lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of hauling two buckets of water up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carry pole is only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Consequently, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. At night, a rat comes to scrounge and then knocks the candleholder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire. Since then they understand the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a harmonious life. The temple never lacks water again.. :)

what I learnt from this video was that TEAM work increased their productivity...when they had one goal..and each one of them tried their level best to achieve it...so as to have a mutual benefit....instead of acting in a selfish manner wih legpulling. The mutual support ultimately helped in solving the problem..which was in one way impossible....but later "IMPOSSIBLE" became "I-M-POSSIBLE " with teamwork . :)

So..lets all forget our ego and hostility...and let us all like-minded people work to achieve a goal...which each one of us dream to achieve one day... believe me, if you think its tough to achieve, with teamwork its possible. UNITED WE STAND---DEVIDED WE FALL!!!
And as we saw in the vedio, in the end, the monks came up with a nice simple solution..using a pulley...which they could not think about earlier !!! :) So..ultimately TEAMWORK indeed yields superb results beyond our imagination.

And... at last.. i would like to add...this movie clip won various awards...to name a few-

Won the outstanding film award at China's Ministry of Culture.

Won the Best animated film prize at the first Golden Rooster Awards in 1981.

Won four international awards including a Silver Bear for Short Film at the 32nd Berlin film festival in 1982.