The Harm of Being Vacillating

 Dear all friends,

I would like to you enjoy with the Buddhist fable (Chadok).  Besides enjoying, you will get good inspirations and moral precepts from this story.  This Buddhist fable may be more long for writing our blogs, but I would like you read it once for all, sorry, if your opinions aren’t resemble mine, I will be  very glad for your comments.  Thank you for the best all chadoks from http://www.kalyanamitra.org/chadok/mixchadok/mixchadok.html  which is supported my writing blog.  

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In the former time, the city of Benares had a tradition of hanging the grass-made basket in the area of the residence for birds to build its nest.

A pigeon lived in the basket hanging in front of a kitchen. It flew out finding for food in the morning and came back to sleep in the evening. One day, a crow flew pass the kitchen, it smelt the aroma of freshly made food wafting through the air.

The crow felt like to taste the food made from the kitchen. It fluttered down to stand on a branch of a tree, thinking of a ploy to enter the kitchen and eat the food.

Then seeing the pigeon living in the basket hung at the front side of the kitchen, the crow got an idea.  It immediately schemed to use the pigeon to pave its way.

The next morning when the pigeon flew out for food, the crow went after it.

After flying for a while, the pigeon sensed that a crow has been going after him.  The pigeon,so, turned to ask the crow the reason of following along.

The pigeon felt suspicious about the crow’s response so he questioned the crow further. But the crow had all the ready answers.

Hearing the crow insisting so, the pigeon didn’t further argue. However, the pigeon could not help feeling dubious about the crow’s proposal. He, therefore, instructed the crow that…

That evening, the crow returned to the meeting point a bit earlier than the pigeon. He, then, pretended remonstrating about the pigeon’s late coming. 

Then the pigeon flew directly into the kitchen followed by the crow. The chef, seeing the crow coming with the pigeon, thought the crow could be trusted and welcomed; so he hung another basket for the new comer.

From that day onward, both the pigeon and the crow went out together in the morning and  came back in the evening every day.

One day, a man brought plenty of meat and fishes to give to the millionaire, the master of the chef. The chef, then, hung them somewhere inside the kitchen.

The next morning, the crow feigned being ill of stomachache so that he could stay in that day.

After saying so, the pigeon flew out for food alone on that day.

When seeing the pigeon left the kitchen, the crow started looking for the opportunity to sneak into    the kitchen.

 As for the chef, he started preparing various kinds of food from those fishes and meat. Some was made by streaming process, others by fermentation. He then put the soup pot on fire and covered all the ingredients with lid and tray.

The crow seized the chance flying out from the basket to hide itself near the colander.  Unfortunately,one of its wings hit the top of the colander by accident. ‘KraK’ The hitting sound provoked the chef to be skeptical. He quickly got back into the kitchen.

 Upon seeing the crow’s burglarious behaviour, the chef became very furious. The irate chef rushed closing all the windows and the door to catch the crow.

The chef finally caught the crow and plucked its entire feather. He then rub salt, powdered ginger and ghee all over its skin and threw the poor crow back into the basket.

In the evening, the pigeon came back. Upon seeing the plucked crow lay breathing very weakly with fatal pain, the pigeon knew that the crow was about to die.

The pigeon then thought to himself that after this incident, he could no longer feel safe of staying in the area of the kitchen because the crow had made the chef feeling distrusted. Danger could come to him any time. Therefore, he decided to look for the new place to live. As for the crow, it was left laying death inside the basket.

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The reference of this story: The Jataka Book written by Phra Bhavanaviriyakhun.

The inspirations drawn from the story of this Jataka:

     1. We should develop a habit of training ourselves to be a steadfast person; do not allow our mind oscillating to the rise and fall of our own temperament. Whenever you set your mind to do any goodness, do it with unyielding spirit, or else, you are considered being good for nothing.

    2. In association with good friends, we should listen to their well-wished advices, considering it and taking it into practice.

    3. Once seeing our own shortcomings or any inappropriate behaviour, we should quickly make them up and develop the appropriate conducts to replace because if becoming our habit trait, it will be carried with us to the next rebirth.

    4. Those harming the individual who has given them the helping hand are considered being incomparably evil and contemptible. We should avoid befriending this kind of people.

  Thank you for attention.  

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Bless you,

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