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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1, 32, 3. THE MINOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS. 379
great. Lusts have been declared by the Blessed One to be like lumps of raw meat, full (&c., as before, down to :) is great. Lusts have been declared by the Blessed One to be like torches made of a wisp of hay ...., like a pit full of live coals....., like the visions of a dream ...., like a beggar's portion ...., like the fruits of trees...., like the sword and the slaughter-house .... , like darts and clubs .... , like snakes and creeping things, full of pain, and full of despair, things wherein the danger is
great.'
Yet notwithstanding that Bhikkhu Arittha, who had formerly been a vulture tormentor, when thus being addressed by the Bhikkhus, remained steadfastly adhering, in the very same way, and with violence, to that sinful doctrine, declaring, Verily I do so understand the Dhamma preached by the Blessed One (&c., as before, in g 1).
3. Then since those Bhikkhus were unable to move Arittha the Bhikkhu, who had formerly been a vulture tormentor, from that sinful doctrine, they went up to the place where the Blessed One was; and when they had come there, they told this thing to the Blessed One.
And the Blessed One on that occasion, and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhusamgha, and asked Arittha the Bhikkhu, who had formerly been a vulture tormentor, 'Is it true, as they say, Arittha, that you have fallen into a sinful doctrine of such a kind (&c., as before, in s 1)?'
'Certainly, Lord! I do so understand (&c., as before, in s 1).
Compare Gâtaka I, 231, 232.
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