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Buddhism

Thag 1:23 · Gosāla

Thai temple painting: Prince Vessantara gives away the white elephant
Vessantara Jātaka, Chapter 2 (Himavanta Forest) · Thai, Rattanakosin, c. 1850–1870 · Walters Art Museum

I—having eaten honey-rice

in a bamboo patch

and rightly grasping the aggregates’1

arising-disbanding—

will return to the hillside, intent

on seclusion.

Note

1. The aggregates of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. See SN 22:48, SN 22:59, and SN 22:79.


Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).

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