Here’s a case y’all have never brought up before:
It seems that as the elder was on his way from Cetiyapabbata to Anurádhapura for alms, a certain daughterinlaw of a clan, who had quarrelled with her husband and had set out early from Anurádhapura all dressed up and tricked out like a celestial nymph to go to her relatives’ home, saw him on the road, and being low- minded, she laughed a loud laugh. [Wondering] “What is that?” the elder looked up and finding in the bones of her teeth the perception of foulness (ugliness), he reached Arahantship. Hence it was said:
“He saw the bones that were her teeth, And kept in mind his first perception; And standing on that very spot the elder became an Arahant.”
But her husband, who was going after her, saw the elder and asked, “Venerable sir, did you by any chance see a woman?” The elder told him:
“Whether it was a man or woman that went by I noticed not,”
Tremblingtruffle’s comments: Make no distinctions! The masters before the masters practiced celibacy as an outward example of making no distinctions! This doesn’t mean you must be celibate, but it allows you to look in a closer direction. u/ewk, u/wanderingroninxiii lend me your wisdom!
Submitted January 11, 2020 at 10:31AM by tremblingtruffle https://ift.tt/36Iort7
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