Kassapa is content with robes, alms-food, lodging, and medicines.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, Kassapa is content with any kind of robe, and praises such contentment. He doesn’t try to get hold of a robe in an improper way. He doesn’t get upset if he doesn’t get a robe. And if he does get a robe, he uses it untied, uninfatuated, unattached, seeing the drawback, and understanding the escape. Kassapa is content with any kind of alms-food … Kassapa is content with any kind of lodging … Kassapa is content with any kind of medicines and supplies for the sick … So you should train like this: ‘We will be content with any kind of robe, and praise such contentment. [Read More]

The Buddha recounts how peoples of the past had different names for the mountains of Rājagaha. Yet now they have all goneAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. [Read More]

It is not easy to find a being who has not been your daughter.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your daughter. Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. [Read More]