Ananda
c. 500 BCE
c. 500 BCE
Gautam Buddha's personal attendant, and cousin.
cousin on father's side--their fathers were brothers.
traveled with Buddha for 20 years until Buddha's
death
said to have a great memory, was the disciple who
recited Buddha's talks to be written down by others.
considered to be the 2nd Zen patriarch, after
Mahakashyapa, the 1st.
cousin on father's side--their fathers were brothers.
traveled with Buddha for 20 years until Buddha's
death
said to have a great memory, was the disciple who
recited Buddha's talks to be written down by others.
considered to be the 2nd Zen patriarch, after
Mahakashyapa, the 1st.
| One day Buddha was moving in a forest with his disciples. Ananda asked him, "Bhagwan, have you said everything that you know?" So Buddha takes some leaves from the ground into his hands--some dead, fallen leaves – and he says, "Whatsoever I have said is just like these few leaves in my hand, and whatsoever I have not said and have left unsaid is like the leaves in this forest. But if you follow, then through these few leaves you will attain to this whole forest..." --Osho The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 2, ch. 16 |
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