28: The 10th Rains Retreat (Pāḷileyyaka) – 984
You, dear sons, however, did not follow my word and committed so great a
wrongdoing.” The Buddha then uttered the following verse (Dhp 6):
Pare ca na vijānanti, mayam-ettha yamāmase,
ye ca tattha vijānanti, tato sammanti medhagā.
Here in the midst of the crowded assembly of monks, those who are
foolish and quarrelsome do not realize that we are drawing near the king
of death every minute, as they lack the eye of wisdom. In that very
assembly, the wise monks who were brilliant, however, realized that they
are approaching death from moment-to-moment. On account of that
realization, quarrels and disputes completely cease through right practice.
At the end of the verse, the monks who had assembled there became established
in Stream-entry (
Sotāpatti-phala
) and higher states. By means of these sermons
the Buddha saved and converted humans, Devas and Brahmas in the Pāḷileyyaka
forest for the whole period, beginning from the end of the tenth Rains Retreat
(
Vassa
) up to the beginning of the 11th.
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