Discipline

Jātaka No. 56: a young monk wants to quit over the many rules. The Buddha gives him three, and tells of a farmer who carried a heavy gold bar home in pieces.

A young deer brought by his mother Kharadiya to learn survival lore skips his lessons out of arrogance and dies in a snare he never learned to escape.

A disciplined stag keeps his herd safe through harvest while his careless brother loses his, echoing Sariputta's recovery of monks Devadatta drew away.

The son, a conch-blower, urges silence in a robber-haunted forest, but his proud father keeps blowing anyway, and robbers strip their earnings.

A fawn trapped in a snare feigns death so convincingly that the hunter loosens the cords himself, letting the fawn spring free the instant he turns away.