According to the story, on the day of judgement, each person will be allowed to hang all of his unhappiness on a branch of the great Tree of Sorrows. After each person has found a limb from which his own miseries may dangle, they may all walk slowly around the tree.
Each is to search for a set of sufferings that he would prefer to those he hung on the tree. In the end, each man freely chooses to reclaim his own personal set of sorrows rather than those of another.
Each man leaves the tree wiser than he came.
- As narrated by Sheldon B. Kopp in "If you see Buddha on the road, Kill him"
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