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Records a conversation between Udena
Thera and Ghotamukha at Khemiyambavana, after the Buddha's death. Ghotamukha
maintains that there is a Recluse who might be called Righteous (dhammiko
paribbājo). Does Udena know of him? Udena describes to him the four types of
individuals - those who torture themselves, those who torture others, those who
torture both and those who torture neither, the last being those who live beyond
appetites, consummate, unfevered and blissful. They want none of the things
after which men hanker, but discarding them all go forth to homelessness.
Ghotamukha admits that such are Righteous Recluses. M.ii.157ff

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