Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/03/2020
Material possessions, honor, and praise are even a problem for a perfected one, as they interfere with their meditation.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, possessions, honor, and popularity are an obstacle even for a mendicant who is perfected, with defilements ended.” When he said this, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha, “Sir, what do possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct for a mendicant with defilements ended?” “Ānanda, I don’t say that possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct the unshakable freedom of heart.
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