The Old Monk and the Stock Story

Once upon a time, in a temple on a mountain, lived an old monk who was a highly enlightened abbot. The temple was on the mountain, and not far below was a securities company, facing each other from a distance. One day, many pilgrims who were stock trading came to the temple. They burned a lot of incense before the Bodhisattva, begging earnestly for her to help them escape the sea of suffering. The old monk, being kind-hearted, asked what was going on. The pilgrims said, "The stock market has crashed, we are deeply trapped, we have lost a lot of money, and we don't know how to escape this sea of suffering." The old monk thought, "Stocks are truly evil things, harming so many people. Buddha's compassion is to save people, so let's quickly save those people." So, he used all the incense money in the temple, with the mindset of "If I don't go to hell, who will?" He came out to save sentient beings, generously taking all the chips that the retail investors had sold, and bought stocks. As a result, after he took over, the stock market soared. Many days passed, and the pilgrims came to the temple to burn incense again. One by one, they were all emotionally agitated, their eyes shining like wolves, begging for the stocks to rise quickly and a lot. Some even complained that they couldn't buy stocks. The old monk didn't understand, "How did stocks become good things again?" "Since the good men and women want stocks, let's sell them quickly," he thought. So he went to the stock market and sold all his stocks. After that, the stock market crashed. After a few rounds of this, the old monk made a lot of money, and everyone rushed to ask him for his stock trading secrets. The old monk said, "What secrets are there? I am simply free from desire and have a kind heart!"