Thus Have I Heard

Text

Every sutra begins: thus have I heard. I was the one who heard. Memory is the first ferry; do not curse the ferryman.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Ananda

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Ananda

• Thus Have I Heardsaying
• Women as Equalsproverb
• Knock Down the Poleproverb
• Twenty-Five Years as Attendantproverb
• Late Arahantshipproverb

Sources

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

  T. W. Rhys Davids (trans.)