How the King’s Bull Elephant Sutta Encourages Us on the Path

Date: 2024-10-03 Thursday

You might have wondered about the four ways that a person on the path, can be compared to a “king’s bull elephant.”

OK, maybe you haven’t thought about that but the Buddha did, and the result is one of his most stirring suttas – Bull Elephant - number 114 in the Book of Fours of the Numerical Discourses.

This sutta brings a powerful sense of what it means to continue on the path despite obstacles. It infers that obstacles are inevitable, as they are in all of life, but that dharma obstacles can be uniquely overcome.

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