Sariputra and Chaos

Once Sariputra went into hiding. "A mess, a disarray, a chasm of chaos, - Sariputra thought, passing through mango trees, - an ecstasy of alliterations, which iambic pentameter as such represents none other than yet more mere verbiage uselessly rending the air against the background of irrefutable facts testifying to the opposite: it's all predetermined, there is no chaos". It was the chaos, though, under which he managed to escape arrest and to flee the city, when the locals started cutting philosophers. When a mounted patrol spotted him, Sariputra decided to verify in practice the old good trick which every Buddhist knows from his childhood. - Halt, - the patrol leader said. - Ok, - Sariputra said, continuing walking along the road. - I said stay! - the patrol leader said in his anger. - Don't you see, I'm staying, - Sariputra said, keeping on a walk. - Stay when you are, you bloody philosopher! - the patrol leader said in a rage. - The bloody philosopher's been sick of staying, - Shariputra said, taking on his way. At this moment, the patrol leader, of course, found enlightenment and asked Shariputra for a sermon. - Chaos, - said Sariputra, - this is when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future*. When Sariputra said this, all the worldly beings - gods, humans, asuras, gandharvas - were filled with admiration and highly praised what had been spoken by him, and the patrol leader, relatively, got out of his mind. * "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?" Edward Lorenz