"Choices, Chances, Changeyou must make a Choice to take
a Chance or your life will never Change
-MCD
One day, the Buddha was strolling along the brink of the lotus pond of Paradise. His eyes fell on a man named Kandata who was squirming with the other sinners in the bottom of hell. This Kandata had done so many evil things his lifeline but he had to his credit one good action. Once, while on his way through a deep forest, he had noticed a little spider creeping along beside the road. He was about to trample it to death when he suddenly changed his mind and spared the spider’s life.
Now, as he looked down into hell, the Buddha remembered this good deed and thought he would like to deliver Kandata out of hell. Looking around he saw a spider of Paradise spinning a beautiful silvery thread on the lotus leaves. The Buddha took up the spider’s thread in his hand and let it straight down to the bottom of hell which held Kandata securely with the other sinners in the Pool of Blood on the floor of hell.
On this day, Kandata lifted his head by chance and saw a silver spider’s thread slipping down toward him from the high heavens. Kandata grasped the thread tightly in his two hands and began to climb up and up with all his might.
After climbing for a while, he was finally exhausted and could not ascend an inch higher. He stopped to rest and looked below him. What he saw filled him with fear. For, below on the thread, countless sinners were climbing eagerly after him up and up, like a procession of ants.
Kandata blinked his eyes at them with his big mouth hanging foolishly open in surprise and terror. How could that slender spider spider’s thread which seemed as if it must break with him alone, ever support the weight of all those people? If it would break in mid air, even he himself would have to fall headlong back to Hell.
At that moment, the spider’s thread broke with a snap t the point where Kandata was hanging. Without even time to utter a cry, Kandata shot down and fell headlong into the darkness, spinning swiftly around and around like a top.
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MEMBERS
Name: April Nichole V. Distor
Nickname: Nice
Dream: To be a Chef
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Discussion Director
1. Why Buddha help Kandata?
- Buddha help Kandata because Kandata performed just one good.
2. Why Kandata did not kill the spider?
- Kandata did not kill the spider because he realize that even though it is small, spider has life too.
3. How lonely Kandata must have left floating and sinking along with the other sinners in the Lake of Blood at the botton of the Hell?
- Kandata was silence of the grave, the only occasional sound being a faint sigh from one of the dammed.
4. What Kandata felt when he saw a silver spiders thread being lowered from the ceiling?
- Seeing to the spiders thread, Kandata coudn't help but to clap his hands in joy.
5. How could slender spiders web, which should break even under just his weight, support the weight of all these other people?
- If the thread were to snap, all of his effort would be wasted and he would fall back into Hell with the others.
SUMMARY
The
Buddha Shakyamuni is
meandering around Paradise one
morning, when he stops at a lotus-filled
pond. Between the lilies, he can see, through the crystal-clear waters, the
depths of Hell. His
eyes come to rest on one sinner in particular, by the name of Kandata. Kandata
was a cold-hearted criminal, but had one good deed to his name: while walking
through the forest one day, he decided not to kill a spider he was about to
crush with his foot. Moved by this single act of compassion, the Buddha takes the silvery thread of a spider in Paradise and lowers it down into Hell.
Down in Hell, the myriad sinners are
struggling in the Pool of Blood, in total darkness save for the light glinting
off the Mountain of Spikes, and in total silence save for the sighs of the
damned. Kandata, looking up by chance at the sky above the pool, sees the
spider's thread descending towards him and grabs hold with all the might of a
seasoned criminal. The climb from Hell to Paradise is not a short one, however,
and Kandata quickly tires. Dangling from the middle of the rope, he glances
downward, and sees how far he has come. Realizing that he may actually escape
from Hell, he is overcome by joy and laughs giddily. His elation is
short-lived, however, a s he realizes that others have started climbing the
thread behind him, stretching down into the murky depths below. Fearing that
the thread will break from the weight of the others, he shouts that the
spider's thread is his and his alone. It is at this moment that the thread
breaks, and he and all the other sinners are cast back down into the Pool of
Blood.
Shakyamuni witnesses this, knowing all but
still with a slightly sad air. In the end, Kandata condemned himself by being
concerned only with his own salvation and not that of others. But Paradise
continues on as it has, and it is nearly noontime there. Thus the Buddha
continues his meanderings.
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Characters
Boy Abunda as Buddha
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Empoy as Kandata
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Literary Luminary
"a spider, too, has life"
- It's nice, because Kandata realize that the spider has a life too.
"I've done it! I've dove it!."
- Kandata was very happy because, he could escape from the hell.
"who told you to climb up?"n
- Kandata shouted to all sinners that the thread is only for him.
Connector
Base on the story, many things should be learn. We must be responsible individually and to all task and decision we made. Be honest to your self and to all people, be kind, generous , helpful and God fearing. We all know that all people commit sins but, God always give us A chance to change our lives, so don't waste that change and forgiveness.
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- Indescribably - incapable of being described
- Wondrous - surprisingly
- Glimpse - a momentary view or look
- Celestial - pertaining to the sky or heaven
- Depths - profundity of thought of feeling
- Writhing - to cause ,to twist or bend
- Notorious - widely known and generally disapproved of or deplored
- Arson - law the crime of setting fire to a building or other property
- Glint - to gleam
- Faint - to loose
- Torments - intense bodily pain or mental
- Dying - near death
- Choke - struggle to breathe because something is blocking the breathing passages
- Emitting - to release or send out something such as heat,light,sound
- Frail - easily broken or destroy
- Cling - to hold on to something or something very tightly
- Chased-to run faster someone in order
- Pace - the progress made in one such movement
- Queue - a pendant braid hair on the back of the head
- Scurrying - to move or go hurriedly
