304. The brahman Doṇa addresses the assembled crowd saying: “The Buddha’s teaching is about patience and it is not right that strife should come from sharing out the remains of this best of men. Let us all come together in harmony and peace and in a spirit of friendship, let the remains be divided into eight.”
D.II,166 (DN 16)
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Where there is pain,
Pleasure is to be strived for.
In the same way,
Where there is becoming,
Non-becoming is to be desired.
Where there is heat,
There must be cool.
In the same way,
Where there are the three fires,
There must also be Nirvana.
Where there is evil,
There is also good.
In the same way,
Where there is birth,
Non-birth can be inferred.
Ja.I,4* (Jataka Nidanakatha verses 21-23)