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Angulimala - 38 The Buddha requests Angulimala to stopBUDDHISM: Angulimala yelled out to the Buddha loudly, "Stop, ascetic! Stop, ascetic!" The Buddha calmly responded to Angulimala, saying "I have stopped, angulimala, you too stop." When he heard these words, a dramatic transformation came over him.
The suppressed current of his good kamma ripened, allowing his nobler and virtuous inner goodness to breakthrough the wall of hardened cruelty into which he had been entrapped. On reflecting upon the Buddha's statement, he thought to himself, "The ascetic calls me by my bloodstained name. He asserts the truth. But though he is still walking, he says, I have stopped, Angulimala, you too stop." Angulimala was puzzled. "Suppose I question the ascetic further?" he told himself. Contemplating thus, he questioned the Buddha: What do you mean ascetic by asking me to stop? While you were walking ascetic, you told me you have stopped. Again, when, I have stopped, you say I have not stopped. I ask you now, O' ascetic, what is the meaning of your assertion? How is it ascetic, that you have stopped and I have not, when in fact, I have already stopped running? |
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