The Long Āgama Sūtra 8.10
長阿含經 8.10
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- Classical Chinese
8.10
梵志又語居士言:「沙門瞿曇頗曾與人共言論不?眾人何由得知沙門有大智慧。汝師常好獨處邊地,猶如瞎牛食草,偏逐所見,汝師瞿曇亦復如是,偏好獨見,樂無人處;汝師若來,吾等當稱以為瞎牛。彼常自言有大智慧,我以一言窮彼,能使默然如龜藏六,謂可無患,以一箭射,使無逃處。」
The wanderer said to the householder, “Hasn’t the ascetic Gautama had conversations with people? How else could his assembly know that the ascetic possesses great wisdom? Your teacher always likes living alone in remote places. He’s like the one-eyed cow that eats grass and chases what it sees in only one direction. Your teacher Gautama is like that. He prefers solitude and enjoys uninhabited places. If your teacher were to come here, we would call him a one-eyed cow. He always says that he possesses great wisdom, but I could finish him with a single word. He’d fall silent like a turtle hiding in its shell. It’d be no trouble to take away his escape with a single arrow.”
Translations (2)
- The Long Discourses (selected sūtras) — Charles Patton, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Linked texts (1)
- Udumbarikasutta — Pāli