sn47.14:2.1 Then the Buddha looked around the Saṅgha of mendicants, who were silent. He addressed them:
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sn47.14:2.2 “Mendicants, this assembly seems empty to me now that Sāriputta and Moggallāna have become fully quenched.
sn47.14:2.3 My assembly never used to be empty; I had no concern for any region where Sāriputta and Moggallāna stayed.
sn47.14:2.4 The Buddhas of the past or the future have pairs of chief disciples who at best were like
sn47.14:2.5 Sāriputta and Moggallāna were to me.
sn47.14:2.7 It’s an incredible and amazing quality of such disciples
sn47.14:2.8 that they fulfill the Teacher’s instructions and follow his advice. And they’re liked and approved, respected and admired by the four assemblies.
sn47.14:2.9 And it’s an incredible and amazing quality of the Realized One
sn47.14:2.10 that when such a pair of disciples becomes fully quenched he does not sorrow or lament.
sn47.14:2.11 How could it possibly be so that what is born, created, conditioned, and liable to wear out should not wear out?
sn47.14:2.12 That is not possible.
sn47.14:2.13 Suppose there was a large tree standing with heartwood, and the largest branches broke off.
sn47.14:2.14 In the same way, in the great Saṅgha that stands with heartwood, Sāriputta and Moggallāna have become fully quenched.
sn47.14:2.15 How could it possibly be so that what is born, created, conditioned, and liable to wear out should not wear out?
sn47.14:2.16 That is not possible.
sn47.14:2.17 So mendicants, live as your own island, your own refuge, with no other refuge. Let the teaching be your island and your refuge, with no other refuge.