“Rahula, develop meditation that is like water. ... Just as p…”

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“Rahula, develop meditation that is like water. ... Just as people wash clean things and dirty things, excrement, urine, spittle, pus, and blood in water, and the water is not horrified, humiliated, and disgusted because of that, so too, Rahula, develop meditation that is like water.”

— Buddha

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Title: Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha
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Context

Sutta 62, verse 14, p. 530

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Buddha. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha

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