The Discipline of Transcendence Vol 1 ~ 09

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event type discourse
date & time 29 Aug 1976 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona
language English
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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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