Reading Notes: Week 10 (More Jataka Tales)
Reading more Jatakas will definitely help me with my project, so I am going to read both Jatakas for Week 10 and Week 11. I love the message of Dharma in these stories, so I will be taking notes with those themes in mind.
1. The Girl Monkey and the String of Pearls
- A lady went for a swim and took off her jewelry and placed it into a box.
- She placed her string of pearls in a box and told her servant to watch the box while they were swimming.
- A girl monkey was watching the lady put the pearls inside the box from a tree above
- The servant fell asleep after awhile of watching the box, so the monkey came down and stole the pearls from the box
- When the servant awoke, she began frantically searching for the pearls and told the chief guard they were missing.
- The guard reported this to the king, and they found that it was impossible for any person to steal this, so the guard set a trap to see if the guilty party was a monkey
- He set lots of glass beads in the bushes, and all the monkeys grabbed the beads, except for the Girl Monkey. She was content with her pearls.
- She boasted to the others about how her pearls were better than their glass beads, and the chief caught her because she did not go get beads like all the others
I can use this story about a robbery, and it would be good to make this into a robbery story and the investigators find out the robber by him boasting or something like that. I could show Dharma by showing that boasting always leads to bad consequences.
2. The Wise Goat and the Wolf
- Once there was a pair of wolves, a male and his mate, and they lived in a cave by a herd of goats
- They were both hungry, so they wanted to trick a goat to come to their cave so they can eat him
- The male planned to play dead while the female went to the goat. She told him that her mate was dead and she was heartbroken; she wanted the goat to comfort her and go up to the cave.
-The goat was wise and knew that the wolves were trying to trick him. Finally, the female convinced the goat to go. The only way the goat would go to the cave is if the wolf walked in front of him.
- The goat saw that the wolf raise its head when it was supposed to be dead, so it went back until the herd.
- the wolves tried a second time, and this time the goat suggested that she bring her friends: 4 dogs, so the wolves did not get to eat.
This also could be a great story like law and order: the criminals could be set up by the detectives and Dharma comes from being too confident.
Bibliography: More Jataka Tales, Ellen C. Babbitt. Main Lesson
Image: Two wolves waiting to hunt Pixabay
1. The Girl Monkey and the String of Pearls
- A lady went for a swim and took off her jewelry and placed it into a box.
- She placed her string of pearls in a box and told her servant to watch the box while they were swimming.
- A girl monkey was watching the lady put the pearls inside the box from a tree above
- The servant fell asleep after awhile of watching the box, so the monkey came down and stole the pearls from the box
- When the servant awoke, she began frantically searching for the pearls and told the chief guard they were missing.
- The guard reported this to the king, and they found that it was impossible for any person to steal this, so the guard set a trap to see if the guilty party was a monkey
- He set lots of glass beads in the bushes, and all the monkeys grabbed the beads, except for the Girl Monkey. She was content with her pearls.
- She boasted to the others about how her pearls were better than their glass beads, and the chief caught her because she did not go get beads like all the others
I can use this story about a robbery, and it would be good to make this into a robbery story and the investigators find out the robber by him boasting or something like that. I could show Dharma by showing that boasting always leads to bad consequences.
2. The Wise Goat and the Wolf
- Once there was a pair of wolves, a male and his mate, and they lived in a cave by a herd of goats
- They were both hungry, so they wanted to trick a goat to come to their cave so they can eat him
- The male planned to play dead while the female went to the goat. She told him that her mate was dead and she was heartbroken; she wanted the goat to comfort her and go up to the cave.
-The goat was wise and knew that the wolves were trying to trick him. Finally, the female convinced the goat to go. The only way the goat would go to the cave is if the wolf walked in front of him.
- The goat saw that the wolf raise its head when it was supposed to be dead, so it went back until the herd.
- the wolves tried a second time, and this time the goat suggested that she bring her friends: 4 dogs, so the wolves did not get to eat.
This also could be a great story like law and order: the criminals could be set up by the detectives and Dharma comes from being too confident.
Bibliography: More Jataka Tales, Ellen C. Babbitt. Main Lesson
Image: Two wolves waiting to hunt Pixabay
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