Twenty-Five Years as Attendant

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I was the World-Honored One's attendant for twenty-five years. The dharma I learned was not in the talks I overheard; it was in the way the bowl was washed after each meal.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Ananda

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Ananda

• Thus Have I Heardsaying
• Thus Have I Heardproverb
• Women as Equalsproverb
• Knock Down the Poleproverb
• Late Arahantshipproverb

Sources

• contentBuddhist Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XI)

  T. W. Rhys Davids (trans.)