This renowned tale of a man and a buddha is quite famous and still the real meaning has not yet been comprehended by many, majority people. It represents the good, the bad, the wicked and the ugly deeds of a man. How only one good deed that he did pays him off with good opportunity to get redeemed. But because of cunning and destructive mind he fails on that as well. The small details like of the spider killing was avoided so he was blessed to climb the spider web. The concept of laser focus and 101 distractions. To read the story follow the following passages.
The spider thread by Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a story which was weaved in Japan. The author is also from Japan. This was written in 1918. It is a part of comic book, in there such books are called “manga”. So, let’s see what moral does this famous manga pours?
I was on a walk with my friend Aditya Seth and we were discussing some amazing articles or the publications of authors. So, there he rehearsed me this story and I was amazed by the between the lines concept. The tale is about a man and a buddha. I will be covering this in short, and not detail.
The man is normal and has not been blessed much. He was a criminal, when he had the human life. From small to bid, bad to being the wick. Did numerous bad deeds and was infamous all over. So as a result, he was being punished in the hell.
In hell there was a pool, pool of blood. He was suffering there at the time when one thing falls there. Before going there let me help in picturing the hell. There were mountains with spikes, molten lava hot the sandy rocks. Ah I hope you got the scene, a place nobody would ever like to visit, these sinners were living there and were there for some long time.
Buddha glanced from the paradise, paradise of heaven. He gave the man a chance, second chance because when he was walking down the forest, he did a good deed that he didn’t crush a spider. As a result, the buddha shooted down the web so that the man could climb the web up in heaven. By doing this all his misery and pain would come to an end.
The man starts climbing up the web. Steps were small and the way was way too long. The man keeps going and going with dedication and strong determination. When he reaches mid way, he glances down and gets blissed on how far he did come. But the very next moment he sees that other people have also started climbing up the web. He fells jealousy and the thoughts fuels him with anger.
He shouts that it is my web, my web. Get off the web. The other climber doesn’t listen to him and keeps climbing. So, what this man does is he goes to them and starts kicking off or uses other gestures and action to stop them from going up.
So, the buddha cuts off the web and the man fall back into the hell. I hope did get the moral of the story.
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