Late Arahantship

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I attained arahantship the night before the council, after years of being told I was not yet ready. Whoever has been told he is not ready: that telling itself is the door.

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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
• Twenty-Five Years as Attendantproverb

Sources

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

  T. W. Rhys Davids (trans.)