This is about two neighbors. One was not religious, the other was and was also an honest person. They were friends. The religious man placed an altar against the wall of his porch with a statue of Buddha in it. Every morning he offered rice and showed respect to Buddha, and in the evening after dinner he did it again.
Later he bought a pot, covered it with a white cloth, and placed it in the altar. And when he came to the altar he always ended with a wish. "I hope my good deeds help fill this pot of gold." His unbelieving neighbor had no faith in this. Frankly, he was annoyed by the daily prayers at that altar and especially by the wish that that pot be filled with gold.
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One fine day, the man wanted to work in the field with his wife and asked his incredulous neighbor if he would take care of the house for a day. "But of course, go ahead." While the couple were working, the neighbor said to his wife 'Lift up that pot every day, and then ask for gold, I'll teach him something! Today I will fill that pot with gold!'
He went to the house, picked up that jar and, sorry le mot, shit in it. Put the white cloth back on and put it back on the altar. The religious neighbor, of course, had no idea when he came home. Took a shower, ate, and went to his altar. He picked up the pot and prayed 'May this pot be full of gold'. His neighbors laughed like monkeys….
The next day, the neighbor wanted to humiliate his religious friend and walked over to him. 'Say, take that pot off that altar. Break it to see if it already has gold in it or not. You have been asking Buddha for so long now….”
"Do," said his wife. 'I'm sure he's right. Let's see; I'll grab that jar. Maybe it really is full of gold!' She wanted to take the pot but could not lift it. "Oh, he's much too heavy for me." Her husband took over, lifted the pot and they smashed it with a hammer. Have a look! It was full of gold!
The unbelieving neighbor was amazed. 'What now? I shit in it but now it's gold!' he thought. His good neighbor gave him some gold coins; he liked to share his property with his friend. Once home, the disbelieving man said to his wife, 'Do you understand? There was real gold in that pot! Yesterday I shit in it and now it's full of gold!'
'Why don't we build an altar just like they did? it's not that hard. If they can, why can't we?' And they also built a small altar and worshiped Buddha and took a pot just like the neighbors. Before placing the pot in the altar, he pooped in it and covered it with a white cloth.
Days and days later, he felt that enough time had passed and that the pot must be full of gold. He wanted to take the pot but it had become really heavy. 'Oh, lady. He's really heavy. Let's smash it and see!" They put him in the middle of the room and with the back of an ax they smashed the pot. Gold? No, shit was flying around the room and it smelled like hell!
Well, he wasn't clean on the bone!
Source:
Titillating tales from Northern Thailand. White Lotus Books, Thailand. English title 'The miniature temple'. Translated and edited by Erik Kuijpers. The author is Viggo Brun (1943); see for more explanation: https://www.thailandblog.nl/cultuur/twee-verliefde-schedels-uit-prikkelende-verhalen-uit-noord-thailand-nr-1/