Wise Old Man

Stories tagged Wise Old Man:

• The Tale of the Wise Old Man Aug 10, 2025

  

  In a small village surrounded by bamboo groves and lotus ponds, there appeared one day an elderly man who seemed to have materialized from nowhere. He was simply dressed in plain white robes, carried no possessions except a worn walking stick, and spoke little. The villagers called him Ông Khôn, though no one knew his real name or where he had come from.

  What made this old man remarkable was not his appearance or his words, but his questions. Whenever someone in the village faced a problem or complained about their circumstances, Ông Khôn would appear nearby and ask a simple question that somehow made the person think about their situation in an entirely new way.