The story of betray

 Once upon a time, there was a man went to learn the magic with a teacher. This teacher was a poor and infamous person. However, the teacher had a good object, which is the magic of creating the mango.

After graduation, the man went home and chanted an incantation to create the mango for people and sold the magic mango until he was rich and wealthy.

After that, Bureau of the Royal House called him to appear before the king. The king ordered him to bring in a mango tree. Then the man chanted the incantation to create the mango and presented to the king. After eating the mango, the king stated that “Wow! Who did you learn this magic from?” The man thought about his teacher, who was an infamous one, and then told respectfully to the king with the untrue message that “I went to learn with a teacher who was from the family of Brahman.” The king said “Wow! In the future, you must invite your teacher to teach me this magic. Now, you’d better to create the mango for me.”

The man turned to the mango tree and started chanting an incantation, but nothing happen. The king was so angry and asked why the magic was declined. “Tell me why was your magic declined? Do you tell me a lie?” The man said “I just feel ashamed to respectfully tell His Majesty that my teacher was just a poor person.”

The king said “Oh! You are actually an ungrateful person” Then the king ordered the great court official to bring the ungrateful man to be flogged for 100 times and to drive him away from the town.

The ancients said person who betrays other people shall never go forward. Do not feel ashamed to tell anybody about person who has kindness to us.

The story of grasp all, lose all.

There were a couple of grandfather and grandmother who make a living by being the farmers. One day, while grandfather was doing the farming, he clashed with the jar that was stuck in the rice field. Grandfather then stopped doing the farming and started digging to find the jar. He found that there were plenty of gold and jewels within the jar. Grandfather was so surprised. He thought that “Wow, these are all the precious treasures. What should I do with them? I should not tell anybody.”

After that grandfather put the jar back to the same hole and then ploughed it up and over and acted like nothing happened. At night, grandfather was not able to sleep. Grandfather slept uneasily until grandmother could notice. Grandmother thought that “Well, my husband has never been like this before. There must be something wrong.”

Therefore, in the morning after grandfather went out for doing the farming, grandmother followed him and hided behind the tree to see grandfather. Then, grandfather dug out to bring the jar, brought out treasures to count with greed. Grandfather thought about the plan to keep secret with him, make money from selling the treasures and then keep the money with him alone. Grandfather also planned to kill grandmother. At the same time, grandmother had a plan to kill grandfather as well. Both of them had planned to kill each others

In early morning of the next day, grandfather went out for doing the farming as usual. In the late morning, when grandfather finished doing the farming, he went to sit under the tree. Grandmother brought the food carrier to grandfather. Grand father started to eating and called grandmother came to join. However, grandmother didn’t eat the food. Grandmother denied to eat and said she would go home as she was busy.

So grandfather followed grandmother until grandmother was careless, he hit grandmother at her nape of the neck with hoe. Grandmother fell down. Then grandfather dragged his wife’s body to bury, ploughed up and over and acted like nothing happened.

After that, grandfather was back to continue eating the food. But just for a while, grandfather’s mouth soaked up with the spit and with symptom struggle, and died instantaneously. It’s because   grandmother put some poison in the food. It’s just only the greed for treasure that makes grandfather and grandmother die miserably.

This is what we call “grasp all, lose all”. If we have too much greed, we have to run after to catch our desires endlessly. So… be careful. Even though we make merit, we should not desire too much for the merit. Whatever we do should base on the moderate practice.

By V.Vachiramedhi Bhikkhu

The story of misunderstanding

When you are with your friend, if you lost some stuff, you should not decide that your friend stole it. Otherwise, you may lose the good relationship that you have been trying to make and keep.

It’s like the following story:

There was a husband and wife had been living together with happiness. This home also had a pet, which is the mongoose. The couple had raised the mongoose as its child. The couple loved it very much. When the couple had got the own child, they turned to love the child more than the mongoose. However, even though the couple had a child, it still gave love to the mongoose as before.

One day, when the couple went out to work at the rice field. They decided to bring the son together. The couple made a hammock and let the son sleep in the hammock. And the couple went to transplant rice seedlings in the middles of the rice. Before leaving, the husband told the mongoose that “My mongoose, take good care of your little brother.” After that, the couple went for working in the rice field and let their son sleep in the hammock.

Just at noon! The couple saw the mongoose was running to them from afar. The couple saw the mongoose that was drenched with blood; hence, they misunderstood that the mongoose had bitten their son so that the body was drenched with blood. The couple was very angry so they took hoe and shoved in order to hit the mongoose. It’s just because of misunderstanding of the couple that the mongoose definitely bit its son. After killing the mongoose, the couple went to see their son, and the couple found that the son was sleeping in the hammock. Under the hammock, there was a cobra that was killed by the mongoose. Then the couple understood everything and mentioned to themselves that “we misunderstood that the mongoose hurt our son. Actually the mongoose tried to protect our son from the cobra.” After the couple understood everything, they were so sorry.

From this story we can come to the conclusion that whatever we have seen is not always the truth.

The story of Galileo

There was a person who was always curious in everything. He wouldn’t stop just being told “Don’t doubt it if you don’t believe.”

He was Galileo, the important scientist of the world. One day he went to school about 100 years ago. Galileo didn’t believe the teacher who taught him. Like one day the teacher said 2 objects falling, the heavy one will hit the ground first, the light one would follow. Galileo didn’t believe but all his friends did. Why?

Because the teacher in that time was Aristotle who was a great savant, nobody doubted his ideas.

But Galileo announced he would do an experiment. He got up to the top of Pisa tower with two objects, light and heavy. Then he released both things from the tower. Believe it or not, both of the things hit the ground at the same time. Finally he destroyed the theory that “The heavy one will always hit the ground first.” When Galileo did the experiment, it turned out two different things hit the ground at the same time. It turned out he gave new theory to the science world.

This story concludes that: “If you are only afraid, will you realize? Then no matter what you are curious of. You need to go study. If you use the idea “Don’t doubt if you don’t believe.” You will stupid as you were. But if you use “Study to know, learn to be smart.” You will get smarter every time you get curious

The story of being with the bad you get bad.

Lord Buddha give us thought that “Having bad friend lead us to bad things, having good friend leading to good things.”

In Buddhist history, there was one monk named as Tewatat. After joining monkhood he had been trying to meditate and practice until he had an ability to fly. He was also had an ability to transform himself to many different forms. But none pay respect to him. So he wondered why no body respected him even he had been a monk for a long time. Therefore, he thought showing miracle would make some people respect him more.

So he made himself a beautiful man who had thousands of snakes around him. So he flew to one palace where there was a young prince. “Who are you?” asked the young prince. The beautiful man said “Don’t panic, I’m Tewatat.” The prince was surprised that he could do this thing. “Can you be my teacher?” asked the prince. Tewatat agreed and said “That’s perfect. From now on I’m your teacher.”

One day, Tewatat said to the young prince that “You know that your dad has been a king for a while. You might not get to be the king if you don’t kill him now.” The prince used his knife against his dad. So the dad gave up the throne for his son. The new king locked up his dad in a cage, and tortured him to death. After the dad died, the mom was too sad and dead after. So he killed both of his parents, when the cage turned out.

When the time passed no long, the new king’s son read the biography and realized his dad killed his grandparents and thought his dad was a bad person. So he wanted to kill his dad. This family kept killing for five generations.

This story concludes that: “Why the new king got bad?” Because being with a bad person like Tewatat.

And this story teaches us that: “Hang with the bad you get bad. Hang with the good you get good.” 

The story of the real winner

Every competition such as a tournament for the men’s football world championship. There are a lot who want to win. Instead of improve them self, some of them cheat or destroy the others.

The following story said about who is the real winner:

Once upon a time, there were two students, one was Japanese and one was American taking sword class with a samurai from Japan.

One day the master who was very old white headed took the students to the beach then said “I have one lesson for you all to do.” Then he lined up 2 lines on the sand. It was 5 and 3 meters long. The American was asked to make the 3 meters line longer than the other one. He said “I’m sure I can do it easily.” He jumped on the other line and deleted it until left only 1 meter long. So now the 3 meters line is longer. He said to the master that “Master, that’s the way I make it longer. It’s to shorten the other one.” The master knock the kid’s head then said “Who told you to do that? Let the Japanese do it.”

The same lines were made up for the Japanese to try. The Japanese was walking and thinking, then he made the 3 meters line longer to 7 meters. He asked the master that “Does this work?” The master said “good job, if you want to see the 3 meters one longer, you just need to let the 5 meters one as long as it is, but make the 3 meters one longer.”

Like competency with someone, you don’t need to go ruin your enemy. To make him fall down to win, we need to do it this way which is to keep improving our self. No need to cheat.

If you win by destroying the others, you get one more enemy. In the other side, if you let them stay as they are and improve your self. You will get better and also don’t get any enemy. And you are the real winner.

Don’t take all the work to yourself

Once upon a time, there was a swarm of chicken lived together as a family. Every morning the leader woke up at 5.00 am. And scream out loud at six o’clock. After doing so, the sun will shine normally. So the chicken was proud he made the dawn happen every morning. He believed he was so good.

“See the dawn happens because of me,” he thought and always woke up to do that. One day he got sick, couldn’t do anything even flying. So his son asked him of he could do it for him. The leader turned to him and said that his son couldn’t do it like him, the dawn wouldn’t show up. “Must be me only.” Then his son turned his back away.

That morning while he being sick, was trying to get on the tree.  He screamed and died that time. The last words were to tell his family to take care of each other.

The next morning without his voice, the sunshine still showed up. Everything was not different from the past days. So this chicken misunderstood him self, that no sunshine without him. At last he died just because of misunderstanding, so he took all the work to him self.

This story teaches that “Everybody shouldn’t take all the work to their self. Someone not just get sick, but die. In fact we should share the work for everybody can help.”

The story of Kong Jue and his student

3,000 years ago there was a savant called Kong Jue. One day a war happened, this Kong Jue got stuck in a forest. One morning his student got up to cook rice. Usually, after rice was cooked, he would make a meal for his master.

One morning while he was cooking rice, the master was looking at him distantly, seeing the student putting rice on a plate and eating some rice before he served the meal. The master thought why the student ate the rice before him. He thought that “Doesn’t he respect me anymore, eating before me?”

When the student went to him, he said “Hey, you ate before I did. Do you not respect me anymore?” The student put one’s palm together to salutation and said “Master, the reason I tried the food is not because I don’t respect you. But now we are in the middle of a war. I worried about your safety. So I tried the food to see if there was poison in it. I didn’t do it because I didn’t respect you but it was because I did respect so I was to give up my life.”

The student tried the food first because he respected the master very much.

This story teaches that: The student did something for his master but the master didn’t think so. So we should never believe what we see immediately, the important thing might not always be seen.

This concludes that: “No knowledge without study.”

The news nowadays we have to compare all the news sources altogether and then believe the news. Don’t believe it just one source. Because what we see is not always true. But it might be something else.

The story of fish release.

There was a young priest who stayed with his master, one day he told his master that he wanted to go home. The master noticed that he looked sad, he’d survive not more than 7 days. But the master didn’t say it. The young priest said goodbye. Half way home he found a dry river, but not totally dry, just little water left. There were 5 fishes suffering. He felt sorry for them and put them in the bucket. Then let them go in the other river. Those fishes survived and he went home.

7 days later he went back to his master. The master was curious why he was still alive. Then he asked "why did you live longer?" The young said "I saw fishes dying on the way home. With sorrow I helped them and let them go. That’s all I did. I didn’t think it’d help me that much."

May be that was the reason that make him live longer.

This story teaches that: “When you help others you actually help your self.” 

The story of hypercritical person

There were about 100 of priests in a temple, and one of them was always trying to correct others. One day looking at the other house of the priest.

He saw the water still leaking from the spring. Instead of turning it off, he grabbed a pencil and a paper sitting from his side.

Looking and waiting to see if anyone walked by, 1 man 1 line, the other priest walked by and he made a line. At the evening, there were 15 priests who walked by nobody shut the spring.

He made a record Friday at the meeting. He said “The reason we have to pay off a lot of money for water and electricity isselfishness. One day I saw a spring of water leaking out water. 15 people walked by without doing anything. I wrote it all down.”

He was trying to correct others of not doing anything right.  After he finished, one young priest said “You saw it the first person, right?” he said “Yes.” The question was thrown “If you were the first person who saw it, why didn’t you turn it off yourself.”

This story teaches that: “The person who always try to correct people can see only others’ bad point. So everyone who was born must not be afraid of being corrected, we are under the sky don’t fear rain. We get complained because being human.”

The story of value of reading

In the former time, there was a monk who went to the meditation and lived in the jungle for three nights.

He dreamed about a ghost of a woman came to him sobbingly and ask for the portion of merit.

He had the same dream in the first 2 nights. He started to believe that there must be something wrong near his seat.

Before the third night, he ordered his follower to dig the ground underneath him and there he found human bones. He took that bones for the religious ceremony and later that night, the ghost of a woman came again. The monk asked the ghost “Why are you still coming here.” The ghost said “I come here for thank you.” Why don’t you go to the next life?” “I can’t do that because no one make merit for me, all of my relatives are passed away.”

The monk asked the ghost to help the people on winning the lottery by giving them the number, so after the people won the lottery, they will make merit for her. The ghost can’t count the number, she said. When she was alive, she doesn’t study at all even her parents forced her to.

The monk said “This is bad, if you don’t have knowledge, you will have a hard time doing a labor job even you are a ghost, you can’t give the lottery number to the people too. And there will be no one make merit for your spirit that if you don’t study, you will have a hard time living your life and even you are dead, it is still hard and can’t go for the next life.

This story teaches everyone and the next generation know that, if they don’t study, don’t like to read, they will have a hard time during they are alive and twice harder when they are dead.

The story of Kon Jue and the kid

In china there was a logician who knew everything. He was proud he was the best logician of the country. Each day he walked through every house, just to say it randomly. Nobody could be compare to him. 

One day he went and saw a seven years old kid making a sand wall lying on traffic. He told the kid "Could you move away? I need to move my car?" The boy said "I never knew a sand wall must give a car a way." This kid standing up on him. The logician was very angry "Seeing you know who I am?" "No, I don't." said the kid. He said "Then know it. I'm a Kong Jue." Wow so you should know a lot of thing. Can I ask you something?" Kong Jue said "Yeah just ask, I know a lot of thing." 

The kid asked that "Then Uncle. How many stars are in the sky?"

Kong Jue was stunned, he told that "Ask something more explainable to us and I will answer. That question is far from our place so much, you should ask something near our place."

The kid asked again "Then, let me ask that kind of question, how many eye hairs have you got? And mine too?"

He was, again, stunned so he said to the kid that "Keep playing. I'll move for you. The car moved away for the kid.

So the end of this story tells us even a great logician who knows everything but not knows their self is not a real learned one, so you need to know yourself too: What nationality? Which family? Parent? Your personalities and habits? Good points and weak points?

The truth learned one must know their self

The story of the suffer you gave to other, will return to you eventually.

Once upon a time, there was a hunter who had 32 fierce dogs help him hunting the animal. One day he went inside the woods and saw a monk. He think this would bring bad day for him. That day, he could not find any single animal and was very angry.
In the evening, he saw the monk resting beside the tree. He wants to punish the monk for brought him bad luck. He orders his dogs to attack to monk. The monk fled and climped up a tree. All the dogs were barking and waiting for the monk to come down. The hunter uses a sharpened wooden stick, stabbing the monk's foot, try to make him fall down. But the monk's robe fall to the hunter and covering all of the hunter's body. All the dogs thought the monk was fell down so they all attack to hunter who is under the monk's robe. Not long after that, the hunter was dead only the bone left under the tree. And all the dogs were gone and the monk came down from the tree safety. This is the meaning of "The suffer you gave to other, will return to you eventually." or doing good deed make you good, doing bad thing make you bad.

It is like a boomerang, it will return to you in the end. But not only do bad thing to other, you must learn how to share your happiness to other too.

The story of Feet and Eyes are not unity.

Feet and eyes stay together happily in a man’s body. One day Eyes talk with Feet that “Hey Feet, you know that you walk any where because of my sight, therefore, I am cleverer than you.” Feet response that “How can you know? If you can see but I don’t walk, how can you see anything at?”

Eyes tell that “It doesn’t like that. Since I have a far sight, the feet like you can go with me.”

Feet tell that “Since I walk, you can see anything nearer.” Both Feet and Eyes have a fight and tell that they are more intelligent than the others.

Eyes tell that “OK, if you think that you are better, you can go anywhere by yourself”

Feet tell that “Well, if you think that eyes are better than me, you can see anything you want. I will not take you to see it near.”

Since then, Eyes and feet are angry each other and don’t have unity. Eyes always shut down. Feet always walk not straight because there are no eyes to see right?

One day Feet walk by and miss the steps fall into the cliff. Both Feet and Eyes scatter from the man’s body. This tale is ended.

This tale teaches that “Unity will be alive, separating will be died. Both Feet and Eyes reach the final point of hurt and death. Therefore, pay attention that you must be united with the friends and anyone whom you work with.”

We must be united with every one we work with, don’t think that only we are clever. If a person thinks that he is only clever man, he cannot survive. Finally, he will fail.

If we are united, we can do anything more. If we are fighting, finally all of us must get trouble.

The story of how to speak nice to other people.

Once upon a time, there were a sea turtle and its friends, 2 egrets. The turtle had never been to any place except the sea, the egrets told turtle that they had been to all the places around the world. The turtle didn’t believe that, so the egrets grab each side of the tree branch by their bill. The turtle bit the branch and the egrets took the turtle flow to the sky. 

The children saw the flying turtle and the egrets which were very strange. They all called and shouted that the turtle was weird. The turtle heard that and shouted back to the kids angrily. Suddenly the turtle fell from the sky to dead. The turtle just didn’t know the time was appropriate to speak and it died finally.

This story is telling us that it is very important to know what and when to speak.

The master of Thai philosopher named Soonthornphoo said “Speak nicely bring you good things. Speak bad will cause you a trouble.”

It concludes that “Speaking politely, speak the truth, speaking generously not offence to anybody, and the important is not rude.” It will bring happiness to you.

The story of be proud of what you have.

Once upon a time, there were a son and a father. The father had the great diamond as his treasure. When he was 70 and almost dead, he called his son up and said he would give this to him and told the son to give it to the king, so he would get rewarded and get good life.

After he got the diamond. The dad died on the following day. So he took the diamond to the king palace.

When the guy reached the outer door of palace. The doorman told that if the guy went to find the king and received something, let him have to share half of it.”

So they decided to make the deal 50/50 and the guy said okay.

When the guy reached at the inside door of palace, the doorman said “Where are you going?” “ Meeting the king.” He said “Have you have anything for me?”

“No, Sir.” said the guy. So the doorman said no. The guy begged “If I get anything, I’ll share it with you.”

The doorman said “not just share, we will make it half and I will let you in.”

After he got in, he took the diamond and gave it to the king. “My dad told me to give this to you.” The king was very happy after seeing the diamond. “Ask me anything you want.” The guy said “Hit me 100 times.” The king was shocked but the guy explained “I was unable to get in because of the doormen so I make deals to give them half of the reward.”

“I’ll take the punishment from you and I’ll give both doormen 50 hits.” The king saw his intelligence and made him a chamberlain in the palace living happily.

This story teaches that “Be proud of what you have.”