The Spade Sage: A Story About Finding Happiness (Children's Buddhist Stories

Overcoming Obstacles, Perseverance: A humble spade enables a gardener to understand the power of habit and attachment and helps him attain his wish for wisdom and inner freedom. A gardener who owns nothing but a spade feels that something is missing in his life. One day he leaves his spade behind in order to live in the forest and find happiness. In the forest, however, he can think only of his garden, his spade, and his old life. After going back and forth between the forest and his work seven times, he lets go of his past and finds freedom. A Jataka tale for children ages 5 - 10.