Episode Details

The Buddha and Ananda once tended a sick monk, neglected by his companions because of his 'uselessness'. Sangharakshita shows that people cannot be treated as 'things' in the spiritual community.

From the talk A Case of Dysentry given in 1982 as part of the series Incidents from the Pali Canon.

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