good morning everyone today i'm going to share a buddhist story about buddha Sakyamuni how he sacrificed his
life to feed the mother tiger and the baby tigers let's find out today
back to the previous life of the buddha he also reborn as a prince in this country
he has two older brothers and the parents the king and queen are so kind to all of them
one day they all decide go travel to sightseeing outside the royal palace and to do hunting
so the father king decided to name three sons to follow him to experience the haunting behavior
and because the youngest son prince sato he doesn't want to hang those animals
so he told his father say father i do not want to do the hunting
instead can i just take a walk in the forest with two brothers together a father king say okay
since three of you want to doing some walking in a forest theme three of you go together
so these three brothers they are always having a good relationship together so they were just
walking and talking and enjoy the conversation and suddenly the youngest prince sato he discovered
why it is some small baby tiger in this forest is almost dying and the two older brother
was very afraid to say sato let's go home do not stay in the forest anymore because if the mother
tiger so we are so close to the baby tigers and possibly all of us let's go back home now
once the two brothers say that the prince sato he didn't say much he just
followed the two older brother walking along on a try go back with the father
in the middle of the forest suddenly the Sattva Prince told two older brothers said
brothers i forgot my robes in the forest can i go back to seeking my own robes and i will come
back to join you and the father later how's that and two older brother didn't think too
much they said okay . you go fast and come back join us once the younger Sattva Prince discover
this is a great opportunity he can be alone so he's seeking back where are those baby tigers
and he's trying to seek where he can find the food for them
and he saw there's some red berry close by those baby tiger and he is trying to take lots of fruits
to those baby tigers but suddenly he remembered what the two brothers told him earlier
the tiger cannot survive if they do not eat the bloody fresh meat. they need to eat the living
animal's body in order to survive so Sattva Prince feel even though he tried very best to
offer these berries to the baby tiger and they still possibly will die and just about
his hesitating how to feed these baby tigers and immediately he discovered unbelievable is
there is a mother tiger just above another side of these baby tigers which he didn't see at all
and then this mother tiger is approaching this baby tiger because she's starving she's so hungry
she's almost want to eat the youngest baby tiger because this baby tiger is a very tiny and very
weak is almost dying so mother tiger decide to eat this youngest baby tiger to feed her body in
order she can seeking for other food to feed for the rest of the baby tigers once the Prince
Sattva saw this. he was crying and crying continue crying he say i'm the buddhist practitioner always
try to practice buddhist method to helping all the sentient beings this is a great opportunity i can
do for these tigers if i sacrifice my life maybe they can be survived once he think of this idea
he just climbed up to the top of the mountain of this forest he decided
jump himself to feed these tigers before he jumped he looked at the sky and to tell the
parents and brothers said i'm not able to reunion with all of you but this sacrifice will fulfill
my true practice as a bodhisattva path once he said that he jumped his body
from top of the mountain but magically his body doesn't fall on the ground all the godness
from the heaven fly in their body catch the prince Sattva and holding him gently landing on the ground
so once this happened prince Sattva kept crying to say even though i want to feed my
body for the baby tigers and the mother tiger i cannot do it. i feel so sad and he keep crying
and just about he want to give up and suddenly he decided to walk close to one bamboo forest
close by these tigers he get close to the bamboo forest he choose one of the broken half bamboo
this bamboo sharp like a knife and he tell himself by using this bamboo i can complete and fulfill
my offering to this baby tigers and mother tiger once he say that he take off all his robes
and he lied on his body close to the mother tiger and he used this bamboo as a knife
to push into his body so his body bleeding the blood once this bleeding of the blood
the mother tiger smell the bloody smell and she get close to the Sattva Prince smell his
body. And mother tiger still lie down and not eating him at all Sattva prince even cry more badly
because even he tried to kill himself but the tiger is still not eating him because
the mother tiger know Sattva prince he is a Holy person practice the buddhisava path and cannot eat him
because he is a holy person he has a great compassion so once the prince Sattva realized that
he get even closer to the mother tiger and suddenly the thunderstorm came the mountain rocks
the king and the two brothers suddenly realized why the prince Sattva is not coming back to rejoin them
why take so long and why this earth is moving and suddenly the father and the two brothers realized
maybe the youngest brother is sacrificed his body for the hungry mother tiger
so when they rushed back and they saw blood and the broken bones close to those tigers
but the tigers was knees down their feet and bow in the dead body of the prince Sattva
once the father king and the two brother and all the soldiers attendants saw this happened. they
all bowed to this dead body of prince Sattva and immediately above this dead body appear a light
rainbow colors of the stupa. inside the stupa contains relics beautiful five color and appear
in the sky and once these have been seen by all of them. they realize prince Sattva already attained
his enlightenment once all of them saw that they all palm together and show their respect to
prince Sattva and this is the previous life of the buddha's life. he appeared as prince in the country
still continue to practice his Bodhisattva Path so life after life buddha practiced Bodhisattva
practices on the final term of life he attained his Buddhahood attained as Lord of Buddha Sakyamuni
all of us should learn from the buddha we are not only one term of the life.
life after life we always need to remember practice our great compassion practice our
Bodhisattva path. so this is my story of today how the Buddha seeking for
his Bodhisattva path and i hope this can lighten your day.Thank you I
wish you will join me for another story next time thank you