Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/01/2020
Venerable Tissa, the Blessed One’s paternal cousin, tells the monks that he is dissatisfied as a monk. When the Buddha hears of this, he calls Tissa to him, and questions him on the aggregates. As Tissa showed his understanding of each question, the Buddha praised him, lifting his spirits.At Sāvatthī. Now at that time Venerable Tissa, the Buddha’s paternal cousin, informed several mendicants: “Reverends, my body feels like it’s drugged. I’m disorientated, the teachings don’t inspire me, and dullness and drowsiness fill my mind.
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