Dhamma, the Taste of Liberation
(2) “Just as the great ocean is stable and does not exceed the limits of the tide-line, so also my disciples do not transgress a training rule laid down by me for disciples even for the sake of their lives. This is the second wonderful and marvellous quality in this Dhamma and Discipline…
(3) “Just as the great ocean does not tolerate a dead body… and casts it up on dry land, so also whatsoever person is immoral, wicked, of impure and suspect behavior, secretive in his acts, no recluse though pretending to be one, not practicing the holy life though pretending to do so, rotten within, lustful and corrupt, the Order does not associate with him, but when it has met together soon throws him out. Even though he may be sitting in the midst of the Order of bhikkhus, yet he is far from the Order and the Order is far from him. This is the third wonderful and marvellous quality in this Dhamma and Discipline…
(6) “Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this Dhamma and Discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation. This is the sixth wonderful and marvellous quality in this Dhamma and Discipline…
“Uposatha Sutta: The Observance Day” (Ud 5.5), translated from the Pali by John D. Ireland. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 13 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.5.05.irel.html .
Comment: Buddhism Lite – we’ll talk about the taste of liberation and leave about the bits about training rules and morality. To your happiness- Mark