The Venerable Upali approached the Blessed One, paid respects to him, sat down to one side, and said: “Bhante, I wish to resort to remote lodgings in forests and jungle groves.”
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From a discourse by Webu Sayadaw
If you offer candles to a monk as a gift, you give them to him so that he has a light at night. But if he lights candles in broad daylight, in the view of everyone, you will think that this monk is shamelessly wasting things. Remember this, will you? There are plenty of things like this. Of course one can say that he can do with his own possessions what he wants, and indeed he can. But if he uses them uselessly, he wastes them.
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Once a bhikkhu came to pay respects to the Buddha only the day after he had arrived at the monastery, explaining that this disrespect was because of difficulty with his elderly father. In reply, the Buddha told this story from the past.
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The story of the monkey king and the brahmin is a story of a past life of the Buddha when he was developing the perfections necessary to become a Buddha. It illustrates the practice of loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity very well. Here is the way the Venerable Webu Sayadaw retold this Kapi Jataka.
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