Sunday, June 7, 2009

At the edge of the river


"Do you lie down in a daze or drunk on poetry?

Don't you have sufficient goals to meet?
Alone in your secluded dwelling place
Why do you dream away intent on sleep?"

"Having reached the goal,"
Gotama answers Mara,
"I lie down out of compassion for beings."

Mara vanished at once.

1 Comments:

Blogger Kent said...

For the full sutta, see

Sakalika Sutta: The Stone Sliver

SN 4.13 http://www.accesstoinsight.org

June 9, 2009 11:59 AM  

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