Buddha Stories for All

  MORAL  Greed, multi-life continuity/ repetition, quarreling  READABILITY  Intermediate I REFLECTION Strife brings destruction of wealth and friendship, While the third party will gain from the dispute.

MORAL  Honesty, Upright & Very Upright READABILITY  Intermediate I REFLECTION Be honest, upright, very upright, and speak the truth. Keeping one's word is very important. In this way, what you say will be powerful and will gain the trust of others.

[MORAL Cheating, stealing, and lying; the wise solve a case ]  [READABILITY Intermediate II ] The ascetic in this story accepted the landlord's daily support that let him practice with a peace of mind. Instead of being grateful, greed aroused in him and he wanted to steal the landlord's gold. The scheming ascetic also used tricks to make the landlord think that he was an honest practitioner.

  MORAL Cheaters never win READABILITY Intermediate II INTRODUCTION How a man deposited plowshares with a friend, and the friend protested that they had been eaten by mice; and of the clever device by which the man's guilt was brought home to him. REFLECTION There was a city trader who deceived a country trader in his past life. In this life, he was still an unreliable trader and continued to cheat his business partners. Because his bad habit of cheating that hasn't been corrected in time, it follows him like a shadow from life to life. This is called the kammic pattern.