It is not easy to find a being who has not been your son.At Sāvatthī. “It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your son. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/24/2020
It is not easy to find a being who has not been your sister.At Sāvatthī. “It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your sister. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/23/2020
It is not easy to find a being who has not been your brother.At Sāvatthī. “It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your brother. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/22/2020
It is not easy to find a being who has not been your father.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. … It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your father. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/21/2020
It is not easy to find a being who has not been your mother.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. … It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your mother. Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/20/2020
The blood you have shed from being slaughtered or beheaded in transmigration is greater than the waters in the oceans.Near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove. Then thirty mendicants from Pāvā went to the Buddha. All of them lived in the wilderness, ate only alms-food, wore rag robes, and owned just three robes; yet they all still had fetters. They bowed to the Buddha and sat down to one side. Then it occurred to the Buddha, “These thirty mendicants from Pāvā live in the wilderness, eat only alms-food, wear rag robes, and own just three robes; yet they all still have fetters.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/19/2020
When you see someone happy, know that you too have experienced that.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. … When you see someone in a good way, in a happy state, you should conclude: ‘In all this long time, we too have undergone the same thing.’ Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/18/2020
When you see someone suffer, know that you too have experienced that.At one time the Buddha was staying near 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. When you see someone in a sorry state, in distress, you should conclude: ‘In all this long time, we too have undergone the same thing.’ Why is that?
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/21/2019
Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the lazy with the lazy … unmindful … witless … energetic… mindful… wise…” (All these should be treated in terms of the past, future, and present.)
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/20/2019
Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the uneducated with the uneducated … lazy … witless … learned… uneducated … unmindful … witless … learned… mindful… wise…”