Buddha Stories for All

MORAL Greedy, Envy, Contentment READABILITY Intermediate I INTRODUCTION A cow sees a lazy pig being offered good food and becomes dissatisfied that he has to work hard to get his food and is only eating straw. He remains dissatisfied until one day something happened to the fat pig.

MORAL  One do not harbours envy READABILITY  Intermediate I INTRODUCTION  Being jealous of the royal elephant, the king designed to let it fall off the cliff. Will he succeed? REFLECTION Do you want to have great influence? If you do, you should try to be a woman or man who does not envy or begrudge the gain, honour, respect, reverence, obeisance and devotion received by others. Instead, you should rejoice: that is what we called sympathetic joy. Such are the wor­k­ings of kamma. Storyboard of Dummedha Jātaka Read the Chinese picture book . Get the text .

[MORAL  Wisdom, courage and skill] [READABILITY  Intermediate I] In this story, the Buddha told us of how greed and anger will cause destruction to ourselves.