Ghatāsana-Jātaka: A Lesson in Meditation and Wisdom ชาดก เรื่องโปรด The Favorite Jatakas หน้า 84
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The Ghatāsana-Jātaka narrates the tale of a Brother who struggled with meditation after losing his hut. Despite his lay friends' promises to rebuild it, he remained without shelter during the rainy season and faced challenges in his practice. This experience led him to seek guidance from the Master, who emphasized the importance of wisdom, comparing the Brother's lack of discernment to that of animals that can choose safety over danger. The story reflects on the role of wisdom in meditation and decision-making. Further insights can be found at dmc.tv.

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- Meditation
- Wisdom
- Ghatāsana-Jātaka
- Buddhist teachings
- Jetavana

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Ghatāsana-Jātaka “Lo! in your stronghold.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a certain Brother who was given by the Master a subject for meditation, and, going to the borders, took up his abode in the forest near a hamlet. Here he hoped to pass the rainy season, but during the very first month his hut was burnt down whilst he was in the village seeking alms. Feeling the loss of its sheltering roof, he told his lay friends of his misfortune, and they readily undertook to build him another hut. But, in spite of their protestations, three months slipped away without its being rebuilt. Having no roof to shelter him, the Brother had no success in his meditation. Not even the dawn of the Light had been vouchsafed to him when at the close of the rainy season he went back to Jetavana and stood respectfully before the Master. In the course of talk the Master asked whether the Brother’s meditation had been successful. Then that Brother related from the beginning the good and ill that had befallen him. Said the Master, “In days gone by, even brute beasts could discern between what was good and what bad for them and so quitted betimes, ere they proved dangerous, the habitations that had sheltered them in happier days. And if beasts were so discerning, how could you fall so far short of them in wisdom?” So saying, at that Brother’s request, the Master told this story of the past. The Favorite Jātakas Page 82
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