The meditating hermit and women's breasts (From: Stimulating stories from Northern Thailand; nr 12)

Wax figure of the monk Tesk Tesrangsi, Ratchaburi, Thailand (Prosperous Photo / Shutterstock.com)

This story is about a hermit who jhana (*) had reached. This hermit had been meditating in a forest for twenty thousand years and he had it jhana reaches. That means that when he was hungry and thinking about food, he felt satisfied. If he wanted to go somewhere, he only had to think about it and … hoppa! … he was already there. Sat there meditating for twenty thousand years. The grass was already higher than his ears but he just stayed put.

But then came a drought. The people shouted that there had been no rain for seven years and seven months precisely because he was sitting there meditating. People were dying of malnutrition and they decided to disturb the hermit and bring him out of his meditation trance. It also bothered the gods that he sat meditating for so long and one of the gods was so upset that he pretended to be a beautiful young woman who kept poking the hermit in the back.

But the hermit didn't budge! She punched again, and again, and again, and at last the hermit yielded to that endless poking at his back. He opened his eyes, turned his head and stared at the naked young woman with a beautiful set of breasts. And he thought, 'Well, what kind of animal is that? Other animals have horns on their heads but these on their chests. I want to feel that; they look soft!'

But that one squeeze made him lose the possibility jhana reach. In fact, he lost all his special powers. From that moment on he lived in the forest as an ordinary person. It immediately started to rain and the country regained peace and tranquility.

Now you see how strong women are! They can use all of them to kill you. That's why we men believe that we can't speak magic texts when we walk just under a washing line with women's clothes. Our spells then lose their power. Also if you touch a woman you lose some of your power….

Source:

Titillating tales from Northern Thailand. White Lotus Books, Thailand. English title 'The meditating hermit!' Translated and edited by Erik Kuijpers. The author is Viggo Brun (1943); see for more explanation: https://www.thailandblog.nl/cultuur/twee-verliefde-schedels-uit-prikkelende-verhalen-uit-noord-thailand-nr-1/

(*) Jhana is a high degree of meditation. It is said that when you have achieved that, you can fly, walk through the wall, become invisible, read other people's minds and get what you want just by thinking about it.  

Jhana is written elsewhere as Dhyana, in Thai as

ฌานธยาน, literal meaning 'meditation dhyana'. Website https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhyana