Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Nandopanda the serpent elder, from the seventh stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Readings from recounting of this Jataka story by Buddhagossa in the Visuddhimagga BPS edition 2010 pages 1055-1060. Discussion of how to read such magical stories mythologically as signs rather than just symbols.