The Painful Consequences of a Bad Fault

 

































There was once an irascrible tortoise who lived for many years at the bottom of a lake. Once, during a drought, the lake dried up and the tortoise decided to look for a better place to live.  He asked a pair of wild ducks to help him.  

The ducks each took up one end of a branch in their beaks.  They told the tortoise to hold fast to it with his teeth whilst they flew up into the sky and carried him to another place.  Before they set off, the kindly ducks warned the grumpy old tortoise:

 -Once we fly high off the group, whatever you do, don't open your mouth to say a word! However, as they took off, a group of children down below saw the strange sight of the dangling tortoise.   They immediately burst out laughing, clapping their hangs with glee.  

The tortoise was so cross that he opened his mouth to give them a good scolding.  But as soon as his teeth lost grip of the branch, he fell to the earth like a stone, banged his head on a rock and died on the spot. 

So you see, being hasty and hot-tempered in life is a very bad fault that can have terribly painful consequences.  It is a fault we should all try to overcome. (thesoulandyou.blogspot.com - Source: Thư Viện Hương Sen)



BUDDHA'S TEACHINGS
Written in Vietnamese by C.L., Translated into English by P. Faulkner 
and illustrated by Quang Đặng