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an2.32:1.1 “Mendicants, I will teach you the level of the untrue person and the level of the true person.
an2.32:1.2 Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”
an2.32:1.3 “Yes, sir,” they replied.
an2.32:1.4 The Buddha said this:
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an2.33:1.1 “Mendicants, I say that these two individuals cannot easily be repaid.
an2.33:1.2 What two?
an2.33:1.3 Mother and father.
an2.33:1.4 You would not have done enough to repay your mother and father even if you were to carry your mother around on one shoulder and your father on the other, and if you lived like this for a hundred years, and if you were to anoint, massage, bathe, and rub them;
an2.33:1.5 and even if they were to defecate and urinate right there.
an2.33:1.6 Even if you were to establish your mother and father as supreme monarchs of this great earth, abounding in the seven treasures, you would still not have done enough to repay them.
an2.33:1.7 Why is that?
an2.33:1.8 Parents are very helpful to their children: they raise them, nurture them, and show them the world.
an2.33:1.9 But you have done enough, more than enough, to repay them if you encourage, settle, and ground unfaithful parents in faith, unethical parents in ethical conduct, stingy parents in generosity, or ignorant parents in wisdom.”
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an2.34:1.1 Then a certain brahmin went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha,
an2.34:1.2 “What does the worthy Gotama teach? What does he explain?”
an2.34:1.3 “Brahmin, I teach action and inaction.”
an2.34:1.4 “But in what way does the worthy Gotama teach action and inaction?”
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an2.35:1.1 Then the householder Anāthapiṇḍika went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him,
an2.35:1.2 “How many in the world are worthy of a religious donation? And where should a gift be given?”
an2.35:1.3 “Householder, there are two in the world who are worthy of a religious donation:
an2.35:1.4 the trainee and the adept.
an2.35:1.5 These two in the world are worthy of a religious donation, and that’s where you should give a gift.”
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an2.36:1.1 So I have heard.
an2.36:1.2 At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.
an2.36:1.3 Now at that time Venerable Sāriputta was staying near Sāvatthī in the stilt longhouse of Migāra’s mother in the Eastern Monastery.
an2.36:1.4 There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants:
an2.36:1.5 “Reverends, mendicants!”
an2.36:1.6 “Reverend,” they replied.
an2.36:1.7 Sāriputta said this:
an2.36:1.8 “I will teach you about an individual fettered internally and one fettered externally.
an2.36:1.9 Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”
an2.36:1.10 “Yes, reverend,” they replied.
an2.36:1.11 Sāriputta said this:
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an2.37:1.1 So I have heard.
an2.37:1.2 At one time Venerable Mahākaccāna was staying at Varaṇā, on the bank of the Kaddama Lake.
an2.37:1.3 Then the brahmin Ārāmadaṇḍa went up to Mahākaccāna, and exchanged greetings with him.
an2.37:1.4 When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to Mahākaccāna:
an2.37:1.5 “What is the cause, worthy Kaccāna, what is the reason why aristocrats fight with aristocrats, brahmins fight with brahmins, and householders fight with householders?”
an2.37:1.6 “It is because of their insistence on sensual desire, their shackles, avarice, and attachment, that aristocrats fight with aristocrats, brahmins fight with brahmins, and householders fight with householders.”
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an2.38:1.1 At one time Venerable Mahākaccāna was staying near Madhurā in the Nut Grass Grove.
an2.38:1.2 Then the brahmin Kandarāyana went up to Mahākaccāna, and exchanged greetings with him … He sat down to one side and said to Mahākaccāna:
an2.38:1.3 “I have heard, worthy Kaccāna, that the ascetic Kaccāna doesn’t bow to old brahmins, the elderly and senior, who are advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; nor does he rise in their presence or offer them a seat.
an2.38:1.4 And this is indeed the case,
an2.38:1.5 for the ascetic Kaccāna does not bow to old brahmins, elderly and senior, who are advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; nor does he rise in their presence or offer them a seat.
an2.38:1.6 This is not appropriate, worthy Kaccāna.”
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an2.39:1.1 “At a time when bandits are strong, kings are weak.
an2.39:1.2 Then the king is not at ease when going out or coming back or when touring the provinces.
an2.39:1.3 The brahmins and householders, likewise, are not at ease when going out or coming back, or when inspecting their external business activities.
an2.39:1.4 In the same way, at a time when bad mendicants are strong, good-hearted mendicants are weak.
an2.39:1.5 Then the good-hearted mendicants continually adhere to silence in the midst of the Saṅgha, or they stay in the borderlands.
an2.39:1.6 This is for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of gods and humans.
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an2.40:1.1 “Mendicants, I don’t praise wrong practice for these two, for laypeople and renunciates.
an2.40:1.2 Because of wrong practice, neither laypeople nor renunciates succeed in completing the system of the skillful teaching.
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an2.41:1.1 “Mendicants, by memorizing the discourses incorrectly, taking only a semblance of the phrasing, some mendicants shut out the meaning and the teaching. They act for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of gods and humans.
an2.41:1.2 They brim with much wickedness and make the true teaching disappear.