Buddhist Philosophy in Economics Episode 11 Wednesday, March 26, 2025
In the rainy season.
There is a ants not far away, singing and dancing happily, without any worries
Not worrying about the future, not finding food to support themselves.
When the ants saw the ants working hard, the ants said, "Why are you working so hard, you are so strong, come and dance."
The ants replied to the ants, "I have a lot of work to do
Collect food and put it in a place, you should think about it yourself."
The ants replied, "I am not worried about the rainy season
There is no shortage of food, now we dance and sing."
The ants were worried because they had run out of food
But they looked at the ants, because they had worked so hard.
Now the ants realized that they were wrong, they were so happy that they forgot their work
When they were hungry, they realized that they should work hard in their free time.
Don't have fun without breaking the rules, be careful not to get hurt
(Excerpt from Fairy Tales and Tales, Part 3)
The Story of the Mother
The Story of the Mother teaches people to be good at business and respect the truth.
The Story of the Mother is a folk tale that falls into the category of folk tales. Elders often tell stories to their children, especially girls, and the teachings of parents who often use this story as an example for their daughters to understand their own actions that are wrong in managing the wealth that their husbands have earned. Not only that, this story also shows the art of relationships in social life. Let me present the main content of the Story of the Mother as follows.
Once upon a time...there was a king named Brahmadatta Soiraj in the city of Varanasi. At that time, in the city there was a poor man, a poor man, who lived with his wife. His wife was beautiful and attractive, but she was stingy and had many enemies. He was not liked by his relatives. One day, Manap and his wife went to fish, and the other fishnet broke because his wife did not know how to take care of it. When the husband fished, the fish went out through the hole. After fishing for a long time, they approached a large ship. The chief and his wife looked down from the ship and saw the fishnet broken. The chief's wife said, "Why don't you use something to stop the fish from escaping?" Hearing this, the chief was angry and sent her down to live with Manap. The chief, the owner of the ship, replaced her with Manap's wife, who was a poor woman. She, Manap's new wife, took the fishnet and went to find something to stop the fish that had been caught, and followed Manap all the way. When she returned home, she ordered her husband, Manap, to take the fish to his relatives. The neighbors were all surprised because Manap and his wife were not kind. When they visited Manap's house, they found out that Manap had a new wife with a good name. One day, Manap went into the forest to cut firewood. When he returned, his wife saw that the wood was all valuable wood. She asked her husband to cut and bundle a lot of it and hired a neighbor's cart to carry it to the store. When the boatman went to buy it, she sold many of her possessions and prepared to build a large house and hire servants. The points mentioned above teach us to organize and take care of the wealth we have earned, so that our lives and families can prosper. In addition, in the story of Manap, it is also shown that communicating with prominent people and government officials makes life more prosperous and strong. For example, in the story, the husband also knew the grandson, the grandson of the king, the grandson of the palace, the grandson of the palace, and the grandson of the palace, etc. One day, she told her husband that she wanted her husband to learn to run as fast as he wanted. The husband followed suit and ran until he was no longer tired. The wife saw that her husband had run fast and had great strength, so she took him to meet the officials so that her husband could go to serve the king. One day, the king went to the forest. Chao Manap told his wife to prepare food to join the royal procession. The wife prepared for her husband and prepared a meal for the king. She thought that the king would be separated from all the officials, only Manap would go. With satisfaction from Manap's service, the king named him "Chao Ma Ma". One day, when he was hungry, Chao Ma The story goes that at that time, the gods guarding the sycamore tree heard that the king was telling his story to the goddess, so they gathered together to collect myrrh from the sycamore tree. When they realized that the king was asleep, the gods were angry and the king was not true to his word. They decided to break the sycamore branch and force the king to give up his life. If he did not do it now, the king would go to Borei and break the gate and force it to close. If he passed through it again, the night and the night would be snakes and would bite until the goddess's breasts were covered. Hearing that, the goddess woke up the king and took him through the three stages. In the last stage, when the snake was killed, the snake's blood spilled and stained the goddess's breasts. The goddess thought that if she woke up the goddess, she would not understand, and if she wiped it with her hands, she would not heal. Then she took the snake's body and put it under the goddess's breasts and licked the blood that stained the queen's breasts. The goddess woke up, woke up the goddess and said, "My goddess, use your tongue to lick her breasts." King Brahmadatta only heard this, but he was very angry. Without thinking long, he ordered the executioner to arrest our uncle and torture him all night. The above points clearly show that not honoring a promise will bring harm to oneself, and also clearly show that the great are like fire. If you are far away, it will be cold. If you are too close, it will burn you. But the word of truth still has power for those who respect it, especially those who uphold the law, as in the story.