- The moral of this story is that if you focus to much on the details of a task you will miss the big picture of the situation.
- Ekido was upset with Tazan for helping the women cross the road. He said Monks should never get close to women or get involved with them. But Tazan was not tied to that women he simply was helping her becuse she was in need.
- Relations to current events -
This storys moral can be related to Politics because when there is an important issue at hand to resolve politicans often loose sight of the problem they are trying to solve and begin pointing fingers!