PÄnÄ Sutta
1. PÄnÄ Sutta.- Just as whatsoever creatures adopt the four postares do so in dependence on the earth, so does a monk develop the seven factors of enlightenment (bojjhaá¹…ga), dependent on virtue. S.v.78.
2. PÄnÄ Sutta.- Supposing a man were to collect all the grass, sticks, etc., in JambudÄ«pa, and after making sticks of various sizes were to impale on them all the creatures of the ocean, creatures of all sizes, even so a majority of the minute animals would remain free, being too small to be impaled. Even thus widespread is the ruin of things, yet from such widespread ruin will be saved those who have the gift of realising the Four Noble Truths. S.v.441.
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