Reading Notes Part A
"Crocodile" Source: Wiki Commons
- First story: The Hare that Ran Away
- Buddha is born as a lion
- The main character a Hare
- Hare is scared and thinks the earth is falling in, everyone believes it
- Buddha shows the Hare that it isn't true
- Second Story: The Monkey and the Crocodile
- The Monkey, the Bodhisattva, lives by the river Ganges
- The Crocodile couple living in the river want to eat him
- Croc takes him across the river on his back then tries to eat him
- The monkey tricks him by saying his heart is in a fig tree and escapes
- Third Story: The Spirit that lived in a Tree
- Buddha is born as a tree spirit
- The king wants to cut down the tree but Buddha tells him not to
- Fourth Story: The Hare that was not afraid to die
- Buddha is born as a Hare
- Hare and four friends gather food to give to beggars
- Hare is tested and would give his own flesh
- Last Story: The King Who Saw the Truth
- Buddha is to be the King
- He wants to give more to poor other than possessions, wants to give self
- Sakka, wants to test him
- He gives him his eyes
- Later his eyesight is restored and is able to see perfect and absolute truth
Bibliography
"Eastern stories and Legends" By: Shedlock
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