Week 2 Reading Anthology - Unruly Monks Reading Notes

I am taking notes on the story/parables around the Unruly Monks

Source: The Jataka: Volume 1 translated by Robert Chalmers.

First note - parables - compare disciples to other disciples (Thich Nhat Hanh)

2 stories told about a brother/monk who is unruly and loud/speaking out of turn/time.  Stories relate similar actions in other lives/reincarnations leading to a bad end - deer caught in trap, strangled rooster. 

In both stories, the person meeting the bad end was unteachable, not willing to be taught or had not been taught. No learning, no awareness of time/place/surroundings/others. 

Probably endless stories could be told of same unruly person reincarnating and not learning - what does it take, how many lives, does the person ever come to learn or begin to learn? What's the moment of understanding or is there one or do they repeat being the cautionary tale in the fable for many more reincarnations? That may be a direction to think about writing in - is there an 'aha' moment to break out of the cycle or not.

 

 This 100% looks like the type of rooster that would wake you up at midnight. Rock and roll rooster. 

"Rooster Romeo" by goingslo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0