Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 07/26/2019

When a mendicant gives up their habit of reciting the texts, a deity questions them. But it seems they have now found peace.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 had previously been spending too much time in recitation. But some time later they adhered to passivity and silence. Not hearing the teaching, the deity haunting that forest approached that mendicant, and addressed them in verse: “Mendicant, why don’t you recite passages of the teaching, living together with other mendicants? [Read More]