Reading Notes: Tiny Tales from India, Part B

Russell Graves

I just finished reading stories 51-100 from the Tiny Tales from India book. Most of these were a continuation of stories about animals, groups of animals who were friends and saved each other from trouble as well as animals who tricked others, leading them to their doom. Near the end there were stories about the Buddha's past lives as animals.

All of these stories have some sort of lesson to takeaway. 

If I were to use any of these stories to retell this week, it would probably be story 85, The Deer and his Nephew. I thought this one was interesting because it seems like every deer should want to learn how to not get caught by hunters, but this deer was so prideful and did not care to listen to his mother or uncle and it ended up costing him his life.

I feel like this is relatable for a lot of us, not necessarily in things that are life and death, but we get caught up in doing things our way or thinking we know the right way to do something and so we ignore what others who have more experience are telling us.

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