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 01/17/2020
The bones you’ve left behind in transmigration are greater than a mountain.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. … One person roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/16/2020
Like a stick falling on this side or that, beings are reborn in different realms.At 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. Suppose a stick was tossed up in the air. Sometimes it’d fall on its bottom, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the top. It’s the same for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/15/2020
There have been more eons than the sands in the Ganges river.Near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove. Then a certain brahmin went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and asked the Buddha, “Sir, how many eons have passed?” “Brahmin, many eons have passed. It’s not easy to calculate how many eons have passed, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of eons.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/14/2020
Even recollecting 100,000 eons per day you’ll never remember the beginning of transmigration.At Sāvatthī. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha … and asked him, “Sir, how many eons have passed?” “Mendicants, many eons have passed. It’s not easy to calculate how many eons have passed, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of eons.” “But sir, is it possible to give a simile?” “It’s possible,” said the Buddha.
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