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ANCIENT HUTS OF COMPASSION: One Named Sagada and the other, Ifugao

“In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lays the world's true strength." ~Buddha Once upon a time, there were two huts that were built in separate villages. They were mountain ranges apart, too far away from each other. Neither knew each one, until one day when they were boarded plank by plank and reconstructed side by side each other on a cool and exquisite place they called Brent Cordillera Hill. One was called Sagada, and the other Ifugao. Each one regarded the other as a stranger.  They resented each other’s encroachment in what they thought was each owns territorial space.  They did not talk. They lived in silence. Years went by, and both felt no contentment and happiness in their hearts. Both Sagada and Ifugao knew that their posts would soon give way, and their roofs would soon crumble and fall. They expected that they get i...