April 8 is celebrated International Buddhism Day. We bring to your attention several Buddhist parables.
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A parable about meditation -
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Parable of happiness: Buddha and his wallet -
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The cause of poverty -
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A parable about resentment
A parable is a unique quintessence of folk wisdom, which is expressed in a figurative form and is built on the basis of life situations thanks to everyday observations of social life.
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A parable about meditation
Once the Buddha was asked…
– What did you get from meditation?
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And he answered:
– Nothing! But look what I lost: anger, anxiety, sadness, doubts, fears, fear of old age and death.
Parable of happiness: Buddha and his wallet
Several opponents of Buddhism slapped the Buddha once as he passed by them. But he answered them only with a smile and wished for health.
Someone asked him:
– You smiled and wished them well, didn’t you feel anger towards them?
To which he replied:
– I can spend only what I have in my wallet.
The cause of poverty
One day a poor man met the Buddha and asked, “Teacher, why am I so poor?”
The Buddha replied, “Because you do not practice generosity.”
The poor man immediately thought that he must be very rich to practice this and said:
— But how can I practice generosity if I have nothing to give to others?
— You have five riches with which you could practice generosity, but you do not:
- You can give smiles to others with your face, but you don’t.
- With your own eyes, you can look at others with a look of love and care, but you don’t.
- You can use your mouth to say something good for others, but you don’t.
- With your heart you can wish happiness for others, but you don’t.
- And with your body you can do something good for others, but you don’t do it.
A parable about resentment
One of the disciples asked the Buddha:
– If someone hits me, what should I do?
– If a dry branch falls on you from a tree and hits you, what will you do? he asked in response.
– What will I do? It is a simple coincidence, a simple coincidence that I was under a tree when a branch fell from it, – said the student.
Then the Buddha remarked:
– So do the same. Someone being mad and angry and hitting you is like a tree branch falling on your head. Don’t let it bother you, go on your way as if nothing had happened.
