本生故事，講一隻即將在祭祀亡靈的儀式上被宰的山羊，因憶起夙世苦盡而笑、又因預見屠者將受之苦報而哭，感動一位樹神向圍觀眾人說法。

A birth story of a goat about to be sacrificed at a Feast of the Dead, who laughs recalling its past lives’ end to misery yet weeps foreseeing the misery its slayer will suffer, moving a tree spirit to teach the assembled crowd.