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.”