2019.05.26 Sunday

Khanti pāramī : patience, tolerance, forbearance, acceptance, endurance

KHANTIVĀDI-JĀTAKA. 1

“Whoso cut of,” etc.—This story the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, told about a wrathful Brother. The incident that gave rise to the story has been already described. The Master asked that Brother, saying, “Why after taking orders under the dispensation of the Buddha who knows not what wrath is, do you show anger? Wise men in bygone days, though they suffered a thousand stripes, and had their hands and feet and ears and nose cut off, showed no anger against another.” And he then told a story of the olden time…

Reference:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/j3/j3014.htm

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