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... rice , and Mahāpāla and the sixty Rahans received daily alms of food in the village.7 6 One day , a doctor in the village made a respectful request to them , that if ever they had need of medi- 1 Short sentences for repetition . 2 The ...
... rice , and Mahāpāla and the sixty Rahans received daily alms of food in the village.7 6 One day , a doctor in the village made a respectful request to them , that if ever they had need of medi- 1 Short sentences for repetition . 2 The ...
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... rice . The doctor , as soon as he saw him , asked him if he had used the medicine , and he said he had . Then he asked him how his eyes were , and received the reply that they were as bad as before . ' How is this ? " said the doctor ...
... rice . The doctor , as soon as he saw him , asked him if he had used the medicine , and he said he had . Then he asked him how his eyes were , and received the reply that they were as bad as before . ' How is this ? " said the doctor ...
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... rice . Pară Taken accordingly went to the house of Kullakāla's wives , accompanied by all his Rahans , and ordered Mahākāla - thera to have a place prepared for him before he arrived . Mahākāla - thera directed his younger brother , the ...
... rice . Pară Taken accordingly went to the house of Kullakāla's wives , accompanied by all his Rahans , and ordered Mahākāla - thera to have a place prepared for him before he arrived . Mahākāla - thera directed his younger brother , the ...
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... rice , thinking that their husband Mahākāla would come to prepare for his reception ; but Para Taken sent another Rahan for this purpose . The wives being so far foiled in their plot , after entertaining Parā Taken with rice , addressed ...
... rice , thinking that their husband Mahākāla would come to prepare for his reception ; but Para Taken sent another Rahan for this purpose . The wives being so far foiled in their plot , after entertaining Parā Taken with rice , addressed ...
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... rice . After some time the queen began to reflect thus : " I do not know the road by which I came ; I do not know what road I should have to take ; if this Rishi should leave me here , my son and I would perish in the forest ; so she ...
... rice . After some time the queen began to reflect thus : " I do not know the road by which I came ; I do not know what road I should have to take ; if this Rishi should leave me here , my son and I would perish in the forest ; so she ...
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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.