Buddhavacana

Akkosaka of the Bharadvaja Brahmin clan came to know that the leader of the clan had joined the Sangha of the monk Gotama.  Angry and displeased, he went to where the Lord was and reviled and abused him with rude, harsh words.  When he had finished, the Lord said: “What do you think, brahmin?  Do you receive visits from friends and acquaintances, kith and kin and other guests?”
“Yes, Gotama, sometimes I do.”
“And do you prepare for them food both hard and soft and give them rest?”
“Yes, Gotama, sometimes I do.”
“And if they do not accept these things from you, whose do these things become?”
“They become mine.”
“It is the same here, brahmin.  That with which you revile, scold and abuse me, who does not revile, scold or abuse you, that I do not accept from you.  It is yours, brahmin, it belongs to you.  One who reviles when reviled, who scolds when scolded, who abuses when abused – it is as if a host and a visitor dined together and made good.  We, brahmin, have not dined together nor have we made good.  It is yours, brahmin.  It belongs to you.”
-- S.I,161-2

There is that state where there is not earth, water, fire or air; where there are not the spheres of infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness, or the sphere of neither-consciousness-nor-unconsciousness; where there is not this world, the world beyond or both together, no sun and no moon; where there is no coming to birth, no going to death, no duration and hence no falling or arising.  It is not something fixed, it does not move, it is based on nothing.  This indeed is the end of suffering.
-- Ud.80

Even if low-down criminals should cut you limb from limb with a double-handled saw, if you filled your mind with hatred, you would not be practicing my teachings.
-- M.I,129

How is one contented?  Concerning this, one is satisfied with a robe to protect the body and food to satisfy the stomach.  Having accepted enough, he goes on his way as a bird with wings flies here and there taking nothing with it but its wings.
-- D.I,71

This concentration on in-and-out breathing, if cultivated and developed, is something peaceful and excellent, something perfect in itself and a pleasant way of living also.
More than that, it dispels evil thoughts that have arisen and makes them vanish in a moment.
It is just as when, in the last month of the hot season, the dust and dirt fly up and suddenly a great shower of rain lays it and makes it settle in a moment.
-- S.V,321


That which is called mind, mentality or consciousness arises and disappears continuously both day and night.  Just as a monkey swinging through the trees grabs one branch, letting it go only to grab another, so too that which is called thought, mind or consciousness arises and disappears continuously both day and night.
-- S.II,94

The naked ascetic Kassapa said to the Lord: “Reverend Gotama, it is hard to be a true monk, it is hard to be a true brahmin.”
The Lord said: “That is what the world says Kassapa.  But if a naked ascetic was to practice all kinds of self- mortification, and if this was the measure of difficulty, then it would not be true to say that it is hard to be a true ascetic or a true brahmin.  Because anyone, a householder, his son, even a slave girl who draws water, could go naked and practice self-mortification.  But there is another type of asceticism about which it is true to say that it is hard to be a true ascetic, a true brahmin.  When a monk develops a mind free from hatred or ill-will, full of love, and by the destruction of the defilements, dwells with a mind freed through insight, then that monk is a true ascetic, a true brahman.”
-- D.I,168







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