Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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KULLAVAGGA.
1, 32, 2.
there will arise no impediment sufficient (to prevent his acquiring spiritual gifts)??'
Now many Bhikkhus heard that Arittha, who had formerly (&c., as before, down to :) to be impediments. And those Bhikkhus went up to the place where Arittha the Bhikkhu, who had formerly been a vulture tormentor, was; and on arriving there they asked Arittha the Bhikkhu, who had formerly been a vulture tormentor, 'Is it true, friend Arittha, as they say, that you have fallen into a sinful belief (&c., as above, down to) spiritual gifts ?'
Certainly?! I do so understand the Dhamma preached by the Blessed One (&c., as before).'
2. 'Say not so, friend Arittha. Bear not falsewitness against the Blessed One. For neither is it seemly to bring a false accusation against the Blessed One, nor could the Blessed One have spoken so. By many a figure, friend Arittha, have the things which are impediments been declared to be impediments by the Blessed One, and also to be sufficient to prevent him who cultivates them (from attaining to spiritual gifts) 3. Lusts have been declared by the Blessed One to be of short taste 4, full of pain, and full of despair, things wherein the danger is great. Lusts have been declared by the Blessed One to be like the bones of a skeleton, full of pain, and full of despair, things wherein the danger is
1 This is word for word the same speech as that which is condemned in the 68th and 70th Pâkittiyas.
Byâ is only known to us as an intensive particle occurring in passages like the present one.
9 So far this section is word for word the same as the 68th and the 70th Pâkittiyas.
· Quoted at Dhammapada, ver. 186.
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