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Revision as of 04:10, 16 April 2019
event type | discourse |
date & time | 31 Aug 1976 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 58min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | TRANS201 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- The Buddha said:
- There are twenty difficult things to attain or accomplish in this world.
- 1. It is difficult for the poor to practise charity.
- 2. It is difficult for the strong and rich to observe the way.
- 3. It is difficult to disregard life and go to certain death.
- 4. It is only a favoured few that get aquainted with a buddhist sutra.
- 5. It is by rare opportunity that a person is born in the age of a buddha.
- 6. It is difficult to conquer the passions, to suppress selfish desires.
- 7. It is difficult not to hanker after that which is agreeable.
- 8. It is difficult not to get into a passion when slighted.
- 9. It is difficult not to abuse one's authority.
- 10. It is difficult to be even-minded and simple-hearted in all one's dealings with others.
- 11. It is difficult to be thorough in learning and exhaustive in investigation.
- 12. It is difficult to subdue selfish pride.
- 13. It is difficult not to feel contempt toward the unlearned.
- 14. It is difficult to be one in knowledge and practise.
- 15. It is difficult not to express an opinion about others.
- 16. It is by rare opportunity that one is introduced to a true spiritual teacher.
- 17. It is difficult to gain an insight into the nature of being, and to practise the way.
- 18. It is difficult to follow the steps of a saviour.
- 19. It is difficult to be always the master of oneself.
- 20. It is difficult to understand thoroughly the ways of Buddha.
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