Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/13/2019
When Sakka, the Lord of Gods, tries to organize a conterattack against the demons, he is frustrated by his lazy general Susīma. Sakka asks Suvīra how one might get what one wants without effort; but Suvīra apparently believes Sakka can grant any wish he wants. The Buddha emphasizes that if effort is valuable among the gods, how much more so for mendicants.At Sāvatthī. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied.
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