Nanak the Wise Langur Stuffed Monkey’s Letter
Hello everyone, this is Finn from the Stuffed Zoo. To our surprise, we received a letter this morning from a famous stuffed Langur Guru in India humbly requesting that we provide him with a home in America. He also made some very touching statements about the Stuffed Zoo. Because I am the manager of the Zoo as well as the scientific director, it is my obligation to make the text of this letter available to the public. The following text is an exact transcription of Nanak’s letter:
Dear Stuffed Zoo,
I feel a great sense of honor to be writing to you, one of the greatest advocates for stuffed animal rights and protection in our world today. I am Nanak, and some have called me a Guru. In truth, I see myself as a simple Langur who has learned to avoid the crumbling world around him through discipline and focus. The mission of the Stuffed Zoo is no different. Let me tell you a brief story.
When I was young, I studied with a great teacher of hunting. There was a large group of us learning to jump from a high rock to snag a cluster of berries hanging from the tree below, and the teacher had each of us pause on the edge of the rock but did not let us jump. “Tell me what you see,” he instructed us.
“I see a bird, a distant mountain, the leaves of the tree, the red berries,” one student said.
“Very well,” my teacher said. “Next.”
The next student said, “I see three Chiru on the distant plain, two of our tribe climbing the tree with the berries, a large beetle far below me on the ground.”
“You see all these things?” the teacher asked.
“Yes.”
“Very well, you are dismissed. Nanak, you are next. What do you see?”
I stared intently at my target, the red berries with their inner juice nearly bursting from their skin. “I can see only the bottommost five berries, ripe, and packed tightly together.”
“Very well, Nanak,” he said, “you may jump.”
From that day forward, I have lived my life with no concern for the matters that are trivial in this life. The Stuffed Zoo, also, is poised on the edge of a cliff, ready to jump and grab a handful of berries. In your case, they are the berries of happiness and of childhood innocence. In India, I hear of all the things happening in your country, of wars and of disasters, and despite it all, you focus only on the berries in front of you, the happiness that you can bring to stuffed animals and humans alike.
It is for this reason that I request you give me a place among the stuffed animals in your warehouse. I wish, also, to spread the message of simple-minded love and charity.
Respectfully Yours,
-Nanak
Find Nanak the Wise Langur Stuffed Monkey here.
