Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 07/16/2019
Remembering his past as a wandering poet, Vaṅgīsa celebrates the freedom he has found in the DhammaAt one time Venerable Vaṅgīsa was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time Vaṅgīsa had recently attained perfection. While experiencing the bliss of freedom, on that occasion he recited these verses: “We used to wander, drunk on poetry, village to village, town to town. Then we saw the Buddha, and faith arose in us.
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