Here the author explains that we mostly think in rut ways and the only protection so that we do not endanger ourselves constantly and finally stab ourselves in our ways is to take on new habits of thinking. One means to counteract is Right Effort and this would help us to walk aside of our usual tendencies in objectification.

Story: The animals choose kings. The daughter of the king of the birds (the Golden Mallard) chooses the peacock for her husband. In dancing for joy the peacock exposes himself and is rejected.

Story: Through the practice of goodness tending to the diminution of crime in his village, a man is falsely accused by the headman and sentenced to be trampled to death by elephants. The elephants refuse to harm him. Being released, he builds a caravansery, in which good work (against his wish) three out of four of his wives take part: At death he is reborn as Sakka. His three good wives are reborn in heaven. He seeks out the fourth and exhorts her to goodness. As a crane she refuses to eat a fish which shewed signs of life; reborn a woman, she is eventually born a Titan and espoused by Sakka.

Story: A hard-worked ox is discontented with his own hard fare, when he sees a lazy pig being fattened up. Another ox explains that the pig is being fattened to be eaten; and the discontented ox accepts his position.

Story: How a bull drew 500 carts in order to earn money for his poor mistress.

Story: How by incivil words to his bull a brahmin lost a bet, which by civility to the animal he afterwards won.

Story: An elephant, missing his playmate, the dog, refuses to eat until the dog is restored to him.

Story: An elephant listening to robbers' talk, kills his mahout; by listening to virtuous converse he becomes good again.

Story: A royal charger refuses to take his bath because a hack had bathed at the spot.

Story: A story similar to the above about two chariot horses, one of whom is wounded and is about to be replaced by a sorry beast.

Story: A charger falls wounded when his rider has captured six out of seven kings. Seeing that a hack is being saddled in his place, the charger asks to be saddled again, makes a last effort and dies in the hour of victory.

Story: Carriage-straps having been gnawed by palace dogs, a king orders all other dogs to be killed. The leader of a pack of dogs reveals the truth by causing an emetic to be applied to the royal dogs of the palace.

Story: A hunter up a tree throws down fruits to lure a deer within aim. The deer detects the artifice and escapes.

Story: Thirsty monkeys came to a pool haunted by an ogre. Their leader miraculously blows the knots out of canes and with these the monkeys safely slake their thirst.

Story: Offering sacrifice to get release from a vow, is not true 'Release.'

Story: A goat, which was to be sacrificed by a brahmin, shows signs of great joy and of great sorrow. It explains the reason for each emotion.

Story: A tiger and a lion dispute whether it is the dark or the light half of the month which is cold.

Story: A deer which had learnt the ruses of deer, being caught in a snare, effects its escape.

Story: A deer which would not come to be taught the ruses of deer, is caught in a trap.

Story: By a bait of honeyed grass a wild antelope is lured by slow degrees into a palace.

Story: A mountain-stag, enamoured of a doe, is by her allowed to fall prey to a hunter; the doe escapes.

Story: Deer in a royal park, to avoid being hunted, decide that lots shall be cast to select a daily victim. The lot having fallen on a doe big with young, the king of the deer offers himself as a substitute at the block and saves not only his own life but also the lives of all living creatures.

Story: Two stags; one through stupidity loses all his following, whilst the other brings his herd home in safety.

Story: A king who becomes a Brother proclaims the happiness he has found.

Story: A king, finding a grey hair in his head, renounces his throne to prepare as a hermit for death.

Story: A king refuses to recognize his son by a chance amour; the mother throws the child into the air, praying that, if he be not the king's son, he may be killed by his fall. The child rests in mid-air, and the king recognizes him as his son.

Story: Two princes going down to a haunted pool are seized by an ogre; the third, by correctly defining 'godlike,' saves his brothers.

Story: An incompetent valuer declares 500 horses worth a measure of rice, which measure. of rice in turn he is led to declare worth all Benares.

Story: A young man picks up a dead mouse which he sells, and works up this capital till he becomes rich.

Story: Two hawkers are successively offered by its unwitting owners a golden bowl. The greedy hawker over-reaches himself, whilst the honest one is richly rewarded.

Story: Travelling across a desert, a caravan through mistake throws away its water, &c. In their despair the leader has a well dug, till far down water is found, and perseverance saves the caravan from death.

Story: Two merchants travel with caravans across a desert. One, beguiled by goblins, throws away his drinking-water in the desert and is devoured with all his people and cattle; the other completes his journey safely.

The author points out the place where we are able to lean to understand all issues which are moving this world. A Dhammatalk on Bhava (Becoming) and how we are able to transcendent birth, aging, sickness and death, exactly here and now.