Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/28/2018
A deity tries to tempt a monk to first enjoy sensual pleasures and then go forth. So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Hot Springs Monastery. Then Venerable Samiddhi rose at the crack of dawn and went to the hot springs to bathe. When he had bathed and emerged from the water he stood in one robe drying himself. Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire hot springs, went up to Samiddhi, and, standing in the air, addressed him in verse: “Mendicant, you seek alms before you eat; you wouldn’t seek alms after eating.
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