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Ep. 182 – Mark Epstein
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg
The Sujata Offering the Buddha the Bowl of Rice Porridge, Is Like the Buddha Being Given the Breast
A buddha is left withered and malnourished. A maid mistook him for a spirit, but it was the same tree sujata had visited nine months before to ask if she could become pregnant with his baby. Sujata offers her daughter rice porridge in an attempt to bring food to the buddha. The fruit gives the Buddha energy so that he can walk several miles to sit at the bodi tree. After three days of meditating under this tree, he ves his enlightenment.
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