Why the Buddha Rocks
Posted on Jan 30th, 2007
by 
Soulplex
Soulplex
Found in Issue #1 of WIE. A quote from The Life of the Buddha, according to the Pali Canon, by Bhikkhu Nanamoli:
I am an All-transcender,
an All-knower,
Unsullied in all ideas,
renouncing all,
By craving's ceasing freed.
And this I owe
To my own wit.
To whom should I concede it?
I have no teacher, and my like
Exists nowhere in all the world
With all its gods, because I have
No person for my counterpart.
I am the Teacher in the world
Without a peer, accomplished, too,
And I alone am quite enlightened,
Quenched, whose fires are all extinct.
I go to Kasi's city now
To set the Wheel of Law
In motion: in a blindfold world
I go to beat the Deathless Drum.
an All-knower,
Unsullied in all ideas,
renouncing all,
By craving's ceasing freed.
And this I owe
To my own wit.
To whom should I concede it?
I have no teacher, and my like
Exists nowhere in all the world
With all its gods, because I have
No person for my counterpart.
I am the Teacher in the world
Without a peer, accomplished, too,
And I alone am quite enlightened,
Quenched, whose fires are all extinct.
I go to Kasi's city now
To set the Wheel of Law
In motion: in a blindfold world
I go to beat the Deathless Drum.
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