The Discipline of Transcendence Vol 1 ~ 09
event type | discourse |
date & time | 29 Aug 1976 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | TRANS109 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- The Buddha said:
- It is better to feed one good man than to feed one hundred bad men.
- It is better to feed one who observes the five precepts of Buddha than to feed one thousand good men.
- It is better to feed one srotapanna than to feed ten thousand of those who observe the five precepts of Buddha.
- It is better to feed one skridagamin than to feed one million of srotapannas.
- It is better to feed one anagamin than to feed ten millions of skridagamins.
- It is better to feed one arhat than to feed one hundred millions of anagamins.
- It is better to feed one pratyak buddha than to feed one billion of arhats.
- It is better to feed one of the buddhas either of the present or of the past or of the future than to feed ten billions of pratyak buddhas.
- It is better to feed one who is above knowledge, onesidedness, discipline, and enlightenment than to feed one hundred billions of buddhas of past, present or future.
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