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... Lord , have no anxiety , we will feed and tend you ; " then they went into the village to collect food . When the ... Sariputta the right - hand disciple , and Moggallana the left- hand disciple . unless his brother would conduct him ...
... Lord , have no anxiety , we will feed and tend you ; " then they went into the village to collect food . When the ... Sariputta the right - hand disciple , and Moggallana the left- hand disciple . unless his brother would conduct him ...
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... lord Sariputta ; the child , dragging the coverlet with his finger , placed it at Sariputta's feet . When the child's parents saw this , they said to Sariputta , " Lord and master , deign to accept the coverlet which the child offers ...
... lord Sariputta ; the child , dragging the coverlet with his finger , placed it at Sariputta's feet . When the child's parents saw this , they said to Sariputta , " Lord and master , deign to accept the coverlet which the child offers ...
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... Sariputta and the Rahans . She also wished to wear a putzo dyed in phanyi , and , remaining in the lowest position ... lord Sariputta , deign to bestow a name on your disciple . " My lord Sariputta named the child Pandita . When the ...
... Sariputta and the Rahans . She also wished to wear a putzo dyed in phanyi , and , remaining in the lowest position ... lord Sariputta , deign to bestow a name on your disciple . " My lord Sariputta named the child Pandita . When the ...
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... Sariputta is hastening with food to the probationer ; before he arrives I will go and post myself at the door , and ... Lord and master , " replied Sariputta , " I have brought food . " - " To what does food conduct ? " he continued ...
... Sariputta is hastening with food to the probationer ; before he arrives I will go and post myself at the door , and ... Lord and master , " replied Sariputta , " I have brought food . " - " To what does food conduct ? " he continued ...
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... lord Sariputta , who could count the rain - drops that fall in the whole of the Kakravāla kingdom , could not of himself obtain the way of Sotapatti , or any other ; but when he heard four feet of the verses of the sacred Law recited by ...
... lord Sariputta , who could count the rain - drops that fall in the whole of the Kakravāla kingdom , could not of himself obtain the way of Sotapatti , or any other ; but when he heard four feet of the verses of the sacred Law recited by ...
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Anavatatta Anuruddha Ariya asked became become a Rahan Benares Bhikshu birth Brâhmana Brahmin Buddha Buddhaghosha Buddhist Burmese Burnouf called CHAPTER death delight Devala Dhamma Dhammapada disciples elephant evil deeds existence Fausböll follows Gandhakuti gave Getavana monastery girl give gold golden basket Gotama happiness hearing hell Himavanta homage hundred kalpas Kassapa Khugguttara King Udena king's Kulla-Panthaka kusîta live Lokatissa Lord and master lord Sariputta Lotus Magandiya Mahādūta Mahākāla Majesty Mâra means Mittapindaka Narada Nat country Nat-King Nibbana Nirvâna nobles offering Pakkekabuddha palace Pâli Parā Para Taken parables Paralaun passion preached the law priesthood priests Prince princess probationer putzo Pyathat queen Rahanda Rahans replied rice Rishi sacred Samavati Sanskrit Sariputta Savatthi Savatthi country saying sense slaves Sotapatti Sramana STORY suffer Taken preached thabet thou thought thousand Thugyuè Thuthe Thuthe's Tissa told translation verse village Vipassana wife wise words yoganas young
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Page lv - ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Page cxxix - If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to be offended, his own passions will grow, and he is far from the destruction of passions.
Page lvi - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Page cxlii - ... painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common), and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain. Therefore let no man be an itinerant mendicant, and he will not be beset with pain.
Page cxxviii - The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive ; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the gambler.
Page cxi - Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of (all) the Awakened.
Page xciii - Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a waterpot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little.
Page cii - Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find ( him ) ; and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal ( visankhara, nirvana ) has attained to the extinction of all desires.
Page cxxxiv - Not only by discipline and vows, not only by much learning, not by entering into a trance, not by sleeping alone, do I earn the happiness of release which no worldling can know.
Page cii - After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.