TotEoTT #502
As Angulimalya was begging, he came to the door of a rich man whose wife was having a difficult birth, and had not yet delivered.
The rich man said, “As a disciple of Gautama you are a supreme sage—what method do you have to avoid birthing difficulty?”
Angulimalya said to the rich man, “I have just entered the path and do not yet know this method. Wait till I go back and ask the World Honored One, and I’ll come back and tell you.”
.Then he went back and told the Buddha all about this. The Buddha said, “Go there quickly and announce, ‘Ever since I have been following the teaching of saints and sages, I have never killed a living being.’”
Angulimalya did as the Buddha said; he went and told this to the rich man.
When his wife heard this, she delivered at once.
Note:
Note Before he was converted by Buddha, Angulimalya was a death cultist who believed he could attain spiritual liberation by killing a thousand people. Some see in him evidence of an ancient ancestor of the more recent cult of Thuggee.
I posted this with intent of getting some additional context or any sort of meaning from it. This is one of the stranger cases I've come across in this book so far.
Thoughts?
Submitted March 19, 2018 at 11:24PM by WheresNorthFromHere7 http://ift.tt/2FL2znb
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