ud2.2:0.1Heartfelt Sayings 2.2
ud2.2:0.2Kings
ud2.2:1.1So I have heard.
ud2.2:1.2At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.
ud2.2:1.3Now at that time, after the meal, on return from almsround, several mendicants sat together in the assembly hall and this discussion came up among them:
ud2.2:1.4“Which of these two kings has greater wealth, riches, treasury, dominion, vehicles, forces, might, and power: King Seniya Bimbisāra of Magadha or King Pasenadi of Kosala?”
ud2.2:1.5At that point the conversation among those mendicants was left unfinished.
ud2.2:2.1Then in the late afternoon, the Buddha came out of retreat, went to the assembly hall, sat down on the seat spread out,
ud2.2:2.2and addressed the mendicants:
ud2.2:2.3“Mendicants, what were you sitting talking about just now? What conversation was left unfinished?”
ud2.2:3.1So the mendicants told him what they had been talking about when the Buddha arrived. The Buddha said,
ud2.2:4.1“Mendicants, it is not appropriate for you gentlemen who have gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness to talk about such things.
ud2.2:4.2When you’re sitting together you should do one of two things:
ud2.2:4.3discuss the teachings or keep noble silence.”
ud2.2:5.1Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:
ud2.2:6.1“Neither the pleasures of the senses,
ud2.2:6.2nor even divine happiness,
ud2.2:6.3is worth even a sixteenth part
ud2.2:6.4of the happiness of craving’s end.”