Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 07/08/2020

Mahāli the Licchavi reports to the Buddha that the rival teacher Pūraṇa Kassapa asserts that there is no reason for beings to be either defiled or pure. The Buddha denies this, and goes on to explain how it happens.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Vesālī, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof. Then Mahāli the Licchavi went up to the Buddha … and said to him: “Sir, Pūraṇa Kassapa says this: ‘There is no cause or condition for the corruption of sentient beings. [Read More]