Once there was an idiot being guest. The host dined him. He complained that the dish is tasteless. The host added a bit of salt and the dishes became delicious. The idiot thought, 'The taste comes from salt. A bit of salt made the food so delicious. How tasty a lot of salt would be?" He asked the host for a handful of salt and devoured in one gulp. Saltiness, or rather bitterness, distorted his face. He had to spit all.

2. Saving Milk in the Cow's Udder

There was a man who would host some guest a month later. He begun to prepare because there would be many guests. He wanted to save up milk everyday, so the guest would have plenty of it. But he thought, 'If I milk everyday, it will accumulate much and much. I have not such a large barrel to hold it. Even more, it will become rotten after a long time in the barrel. I'd better not milk since today and leave it in the cow's udder. When the guests arrive, I can entertain them with fresh milk. What a wonderful idea!' Therefore, he separated his cow and her new-born calf and does not milk anymore. After a month, it was the day to invite the guests. He led cow to the guests and announced with smile, ' I'll entertain you with fresh milk!' But not a single drop of milk can be milked. He was derided on the spot.

3. Bald Head Hit by Pear

There was an idiot who was bald. One day, a man saw his bald head and hit it with s pear. He hit again and again until it blooded. But the idiot tolerated with no resistance and shunning. Then another person saw it and could not bear. So he told the idiot, 'How can you only stand there being hit? Even you do not dare to resist, you can still run away. Look all the blood on your head!' But the idiot answered, 'Oh, sir! For a person like him, I can only leave him alone. He was so ignorant. He thought my head is stone and can be hit by a pear carelessly only because I have no hair. On the contrary, this is my head and it begun to blood at last. Oh look, what a big fool! So, for a person so imperious, brutal, and ignorant, what can I do!' The other person listened his words and was very angry. He rebuked, 'You are the fool, though you still said the other is fool. If you are not fool, why do you neither hit back nor run away, stand there still, and let him hit your bald head with a pear as he pleases?'

These fables are the content of a famous Buddhism books 100 fables (actually only 98 stories). The claimed 'translator' here is only to relate it in English according to a Chinese relation by Feng Xuefeng, 1940s.