When the Buddha was surrounding the monastery, there was a bhikkhu who was very willful, so the Buddha said to him:
Bhikkhu! You are not only willful in this life, but also in your previous life. In your previous life, you did not listen to the advice of the doctors. I lost my life because of my waywardness. Please let me tell you the past events! l
The wayward bhikkhu was very happy, so he listened attentively. The Buddha said that once upon a time, in the home of a rich man in the country of Kahu, there was a young man who came to Tongda At the age of Shili, he knew the pain caused by desire and the happiness derived from desirelessness, so he gave up desire and became a monk in the Himalayas to practice immortality. He obtained the five supernatural powers and lived in meditation. Later, he was praised by five hundred ascetics. Surround yourself and become the master of great happiness.
One day, a little snake crawled into a certain traveler's room for no reason. The traveler cherished the little snake as his own son and gave it a place to sleep in the bamboo shelter. This snake lived in the bamboo shelter, so everyone called it He (bamboo), and because the traveler loves snakes like his son, everyone calls him the father of bamboo.
One day, the young man heard that a certain traveler liked to raise snakes, and asked someone to ask him:
De said that you keep snakes in the village, are they? After the answer was true, he said: Snakes It cannot be trusted and should not be cherished!
The traveler heard this and said:
The snake is my junior brother, and I can't live without the snake!
The young man told him
You will die because of the snake! l
The traveler chose to betray the young man's teachings and could not give up the snake. After a while, the travelers went out to collect wild fruits. Because they were going to a place where fruits were hard to come by, they had to stay there for two or three days. Yizhu's father also added the bamboo that raised the snake. After taking off the lid, they went as they pleased and stayed wrapped there for two or three days. Then when everyone came back, they fed the snake with food. After closing the lid, he stretched out his hand and said:
My child, you must be hungry!
The snake is already hungry because it doesn’t want to eat. On the third day, he got angry and bit the outstretched hand, killing the traveler immediately and fleeing into the forest. When the travelers saw this, they came to tell the young man. The young man buried the traveler lavishly, sat in the center of the group of hermits, and gave instructions. They said
If a person refuses to listen to the advice of loving oneself, he will surely die, just like the father of the bamboo.
After the young man taught them sincerely in this way, he obtained the fruition of being reborn in the formless realm.
After the Buddha told the story of the past, he said again:
Bhikkhu! You are willful not only in this life, but also in previous lives. For this reason, he once wrote that he was bitten by a snake and died.
After hearing this, the bhikkhu felt repentant. From then on, he changed his willful bad temper.
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