..续本文上一页 said, the Venerable Isidatta was silent.
"Are you my Isidatta
"
"Yes, householder."
"Then may Master Isidatta delight in the charming Wild Mango Grove at Macchikasanda. I will be responsible for your robes, almsfood, lodgings, & medicinal requisites."
"That is admirably said, householder."
Then Citta the householder — having delighted & rejoiced in the Venerable Isidatta”s words — with his own hand served & satisfied the senior monks with choice staple & non-staple foods. When the senior monks had finished eating and had removed their hands from their bowls, they got up from their seats and left.
Then the most senior monk said to the Venerable Isidatta: "It was excellent, friend Isidatta, the way that question inspired you to answer. It didn”t inspire an answer in me at all. Whenever a similar question comes up again, may it inspire you to answer as you did just now."
Then Ven. Isidatta — having set his lodging in order and taking his bowl & robes — left Macchikasanda. And in leaving Macchikasanda, he was gone for good and never returned.
— SN 41.3
Note
1. Citta the householder was a lay non-returner who had a fondness for posing difficult questions to monks.
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§ 2.12.
When dwelling on views
as "supreme,"
a person makes them
the utmost thing
in the world,
&, from that, calls
all others inferior
and so he”s not free
from disputes.
When he sees his advantage
in what”s seen, heard, sensed,
or in precepts & practices,
seizing it there
he sees all else
as inferior.
That, too, say the skilled,
is a binding knot: that
in dependence on which
you regard another
as inferior.
So a monk shouldn”t be dependent
on what”s seen, heard, or sensed,
or on precepts & practices;
nor should he conjure a view in the world
in connection with knowledge
or precepts & practices;
shouldn”t take himself
to be "equal";
shouldn”t think himself
inferior or superlative.
— Sn 4.5
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§ 2.13.
Whoever construes
”equal,”
”superior,” or
”inferior,”
by that he”d dispute;
whereas to one unaffected
by these three,
”equal,”
”superior,”
do not occur.
Of what would the brahman say ”true”
or ”false,”
disputing with whom:
he in whom ”equal,” ”unequal” are not.
Having abandoned home,
living free from society,
the sage
in villages
creates no intimacies.
Rid of sensual passions, free
from yearning,
he wouldn”t engage with people
in quarrelsome debate.
Those things
aloof from which
he should go about in the world:
the great one
wouldn”t take them up
& argue for them.
As the prickly lotus
is unsmeared by water & mud,
so the sage,
an exponent of peace,
without greed,
is unsmeared by sensuality &
the world.
An attainer-of-wisdom isn”t measured
made proud
by views or
by what is thought,
for he isn”t affected by them.
He wouldn”t be led
by action, learning;
doesn”t reach a conclusion
in any entrenchments.
For one dispassionate toward perception
there are no ties;
for one released by discernment,
no
delusions.
Those who grasp at perceptions & views
go about butting their heads
in the world.
— Sn 4.9
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§ 2.14. Ven. Sariputta said, "Friends, just now as I was withdrawn in seclusion, this train of thought arose to my awareness: ”Is there anything in the world with whose change or alteration there would arise within me sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair
” Then the thought occurred to me: ”There is nothing in the world with whose change or alteration there would arise within me sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & …
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