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paint :
   pupay

   One day, a man brought plenty of meat and fishes to give to the millionaire, the master of the chef. The chef, then, hung them somewhere inside the kitchen.
The crow had a strong desire to eat the meat. So...

The next morning, the crow feigned being ill of stomachage so that he could stay in that day.

  After saying so, the pigeon flew out for food alone on that day.

 When seeing the pigeon left the kitchen, the crow started looking for the opportunity to sneak into the kitchen.
   As for the chef, he started preparing various kinds of food from those fishes and meat. Some was made by streaming process, others by fermentation. He then put the soup pot on fire and covered all the ingredients with lid and tray.
   The crow seized the chance flying out from the basket to hide itself near the colander. Unfortunately, one of its wings hit the top of the colander by accident. ‘KraK’ The hitting sound provoked the chef to be skeptical. He quickly got back into the kitchen.

  Upon seeing the crow’s burglarious behaviour, the chef became very furious. The irate chef rushed closing all the windows and the door to catch the crow.

  The chef finally caught the crow and plucked its entire feather. He then rub salt, powdered ginger and ghee all over its skin and threw the poor crow back into the basket.

    In the evening, the pigeon came back. Upon seeing the plucked crow lay breathing very weakly with fatal pain, the pigeon knew that the crow was about to die.

 Then, the pigeon uttered an adage that…

   The pigeon then thought to himself that after this incident, he could no longer feel safe of staying in the area of the kitchen because the crow had made the chef feeling distrusted. Danger could come to him any time. Therefore, he decided to look for the new place to live. As for the crow, it was left laying death inside the basket.
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The reference of this story: The Jataka Book written by Phra Bhavanaviriyakhun.   

 

Kapotaka Jataka
  
The motive of the Lord Buddha’s recollection of this story can be summarized as follows:

....In the Buddha time, there was a monk with a nature of capriciousness. With such nature, he inconstantly practised meditation, resulting in achieving no meditative attainment. His fellow monks, therefore, brought him to see the Lord Buddha. After being questioned by the Lord, he admitted of being fickle in practice.

.....The Lord Buddha kindly employed the knowledge of insight to recollect the monk’s previous life and told the monk that, ‘in one of your previous life times, because of your vacillating habit, you caused yourself being killed and your best friend having no alternative but to leave his residence.’ The Lord, so, took the opportunity referring to the story of Kapotaka as described in the above details.

 
:The inspirations drawn from the story of this Jataka:
  

.....1. We should develop a habit of training ourselves to be a steadfast person; do not allow our mind oscillating to the rise and fall of our own temperament. Whenever you set your mind to do any goodness, do it with unyielding spirit, or else, you are considered being good for nothing.

.....2. In association with good friends, we should listen to their well-wished advices, considering it and taking it into practice.

.....3. Once seeing our own shortcomings or any inappropriate behaviour, we should quickly make them up and develop the appropriate conducts to replace because if becoming our habit trait, it will be carried with us to the next rebirth.

.....4. Those harming the individual who has given them the helping hand are considered being incomparably evil and contemptible. We should avoid befriending this kind of people.
 
 

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