Deity Rohitassaperson
2 discourses
The deity who had once spent a lifetime flying through space toward the world's edge and died short of it. The Buddha told him the end of the world is not won by travel: in this very fathom-long body, with its perception and mind, the world, its arising and ending, and the path (AN 4.45–46, SN 2.26).
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Can one reach the world’s end by traveling? Recalling a past life spent speeding across space, the deity Rohitassa learns from the Buddha that suffering ends not by traversing the physical cosmos, but by awakening within this conscious fathom-long body.
PTS 1.61Can one reach the world’s end by traveling? Recalling a past life spent speeding across space, the deity Rohitassa learns from the Buddha that suffering ends not by traversing the physical cosmos, but by awakening within this conscious fathom-long body.
PTS 2.47–2.48