Can someone give me an example of a parable to use?
No matter where you go this is where you are; Chances are if your parents don’t have children; you won’t either. The Buddhist parable is part of the famous Saddharmapundarika Sutra (also called the Lotus Sutra, composed at the end of the second century AD), which revealed the new teaching of Mahayana Buddhism regarding the bodhisattva beings. The discourse of the Buddha is said to have taken place in front of a very large public, consisting of arhats, nuns, bodhisattvas, gods and other beings. His teaching was addressed to those who have reached the arhat stage of becoming and are supposed to advance further to becoming a bodhisattva. As the son in the parable shouldn’t have been satisfied with his low social status, the Buddhist disciples should also aspire to a higher position, that of becoming a bodhisattva. It will eventually be attained after a long instructing and testing process Most Westerners are familiar with the Parable of the Prodigal Son as it appears in Luke’s Gospel, but
