Dear Frank,

You must be thinking of the Keva.d.dha (or Keva.t.ta) Sutta (D 11 = SD 1.7),
which will be appearing in SD 1, probably out in March.

A very humourous sutta, but with profound teachings.

With metta,

Piya

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:56 AM, frank <fcckuan@...> wrote:

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> There's another sutta I'm thinking of relevant to the preacher's
> question, but it turns the question and answer back on him. I believe
> it occurs in Samyutta first or second sections (Devas and devatas).
> I browsed through access to insight's selections on those sections and
> didn't see the sutta I'm thinking of.
>
> It's the sutta that goes something like this:
>
> One of the Buddha's disciples, I don't think it was Mogollana, but a
> disciple who did have the ability to travel to any deva realm.
> He tracked down the highest ranking god/brahma, and asked him a tough
> question, something like, "Is there a place where the four elements have
> no footing, where light and consciousness have no place to land?" Brahma
> repsonded with something like, "I am Brahma, the almighty, all powerful.
> There is nothing that is not within my domain of knowing."
> Yet he didn't answer the disciple's question.
> Brahma then did some kind of evasive maneuver, trying to hide in a
> higher brahma realm or realm of higher meditative attainment, but this
> was a powerful disciple and for a second time and a third time he
> tracked him down to ask the question, "is there a place where the 4
> elements...". And for the 2nd and 3rd time, Brahma responded the same way.
>
> The disciple, frustrated, said, "Look here Brahma, I asked you this
> question and you keep giving me this weak evasive response without
> answering. What's up with that?"
>
> Brahma replies: " Hey man, you made me look bad in front of my guys, the
> other Brahmas and devas who look up to me by asking me a question I
> don't know the answer to. Why you hassling me in the first place, when
> you're a disciple of the Buddha, the all knowing one? He can answer your
> question." The disciple asks the Buddha, who of course answers it.
>
> I just pulled out the CDOB and flipped quickly through the first
> sections, didn't see it. Maybe the sutta I'm thinking of is in Digha or
> Majjhima?
>
>
>



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