AN 4.41 - 4.50 With Rohitassa

Mar 03, 2022, 10:36 PM

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4.41 Developing convergence for pleasure, understanding, mindfulness, and ending defilements.
4.42 Answering questions definitively, analytically, with a counter-question, or setting it aside.
4.43 Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching.
4.44 Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching.
4.45 The god Rohitassa tells how he tried to go to the end of the world.
4.46 The Buddha relates the story of Rohitassa.
4.47 The sky and earth and very far apart. What’s further apart?
4.48 The Buddha praises the teaching of the monk Visākha.
4.49 Distortions of perception, mind, and view.
4.50 Four things obscure the sun and moon, so they don’t shine and glow and radiate. And four things corrupt mendicants: alcohol, sex, money, wrong livelihood.