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Showing posts with label The Story of Khanu-Kondanna. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Verse 111

Dhammapada Verse 111

The Story of Khanu-Kondanna

Thera Kondanna, after taking a subject of meditation from the Buddha, went into the jungle to practice meditation and there attained arahatship. Coming back to pay homage to the Buddha, he stopped on the way because he was very tired. He sat on a large stone-slab, his mind fixed in jhana concentration. At that moment five hundred robbers after looting a large village came to the place where the thera was. Taking him for a tree stump they put their bundles of loot all over and around the body of the thera. When day broke they realized that what they took to be a tree stump was, in fact, a living being. Then again, they thought it was an ogre and ran away in fright.