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Jigme Dorje wrote: <<Correction: the citation for the parable is
Saddharmapundarika sutra 3.  The parable is the one in which a wealthy man's
house caught fire. When the man saw that his children were too engrossed in play
to heed his calls to escape, he beguiled them with promises of wonderful toys.
It is interpreted to mean that the Buddha in his compassion will devise ways of
saving us from dukkha.

(for those who are picking up the thread here, please note that I do not mean
this as an endorsement of falsehood in speech)>>

I remember that in Japan, there were peasants who taught goats to go to lunch
(etc.) by listening to a horn. One day, one peasant was looking from a hill, saw
massive waves coming from the ocean, took his horn out and blew it. The goats
went to where they normally had lunch and escaped the waves, though there was no
lunch waiting for them this time. It was untruth, but it saved them (and it
saved the small fortunes of their owners that they represented).

Tang Huyen