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a monk...


"He who has no thought of 'I' and 'mine',

whatever toward his mind and body,

he who grieves not for what he has not,

he is, indeed,

called a _bhikkhu_ [monk].


Gautama the Buddha
_Dhammapada_ 367
in Andrew Wilson, Ed.
_World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts_
St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1995, p. 638

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