Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/05/2019
Māra criticizes the Buddha for his lion’s roar, asserting that the Buddha is not in fact peerless.At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now, at that time the Buddha was teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly. Then Māra thought, “The ascetic Gotama is teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly. Why don’t I go and pull the wool over their eyes?” Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse: “Why now do you roar like a lion?
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