Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 07/27/2019
A mendicant plagued by bad thoughts is encouraged by a deity.At one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove. Now at that time that mendicant, during their day’s meditation, was thinking bad, unskillful thoughts, that is: sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts. The deity haunting that forest had compassion for that mendicant, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse: “Because of improper attention, you’re consumed by your thoughts.
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