This same monk went to master Bawan and said: “Tell me of
the monk Mudána, for I am new to the Temple and have never
heard of him, except that he was banished for laziness.”
Bawan replied: “Mudána wished to be a great developer. He
asked questions of the masters, studied the code of his
peers, and insisted that the team leads review his work.”
The monk said: “If all this is true, then surely Mudána was
not lazy.”
Bawan rapped the monk’s head with his staff. “Eku had a
parrot that asked each visitor if Patterns and Antipatterns
were one and the same, yet the only answer the parrot wanted
was a cracker. The bird memorized random bits of
bibble-babble merely to repeat the sounds. And it insisted
on performing for Eku because she would sometimes stroke its
head.”
The monk rubbed his head, saying: “Yet you said that Mudána
wished to be a great developer!”
Bawan replied: “Eku’s parrot wished to be like its master.
Did it yearn to possess Eku’s wisdom... or her ability to
open the cabinet where the crackers were kept?”
