ONCE, the sage Confucius and his followers were chased out of a kingdom. While cutting through a forest, Confucius and his group of followers met a woman awash in tears beside a freshly-dug grave.

One of Confucius’s followers asked her why she was crying. “First my in-laws were killed here by a tiger. Then my husband was killed. And now it is my child,” cried the woman. Confucius then asked her why she continued to live in such a dangerou