123 Nangalīsa Jātaka (JTA 1.47) The Shaft of Plow Ashin Sarana:
Yamona’s drawing In the Buddha time , a bhikkhu was always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time . The Buddha said that’s not the first time the Bhikkhu said wrong thing and the Buddha told the story about the past. When Buddha to be was a teacher with 500 students, one of his students was the one who said the wrong things . One evening when the teacher asked him to prop up the bed, unable to find another block, he sat under the bed and held it up the whole night.When the teacher found that out, he wanted to help him learn. He sent the student to the forest to get firewood and reported to him what he had seen or heard. First he said he saw a snake and it looked like a shaft of a plow. Next , he saw an elephant and said it looked like a shaft of plow. Then,he said he ate a sugar cane and it made him think of a shaft of plow. Finally,he said he ate some curd with molasses and it made him think of a shaft of plow. The teacher said he will never learn.Kids’ drawing
