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MN 122: Was the Buddha unsociable?

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MN 122 says: > Ananda, there is this abiding discovered by the Tathagata: to enter > and abide in voidness internally by giving no attention to all signs. > If, while the Tathagata is abiding thus, he is visited by bhikkhus or > bhikkhunis, by men or women lay followers, by kings or kings' > ministers, by other sectarians or their disciples, then with a mind > leaning to seclusion, tending and inclining to seclusion, withdrawn, > delighting in renunciation, and altogether done with things that are > the basis for taints, he invariably talks to them **in a way concerned > with dismissing them.** Was the Buddha unsociable? If not, what is the meaning of the above verse?
Asked by Paraloka Dhamma Dhatu (45860 rep)
Mar 3, 2022, 05:06 AM
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