The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fourth Chapter for Recitation
“Serve me with the tender pork you have prepared, Cunda, but serve
the Community of monks with the other foodstuffs which have been
prepared.”
“Very well, reverend Sir”, said Cunda the Smith, and after replying to
the Gracious One, he served the Gracious One with the tender pork
that had been prepared, but served the Community of monks with the
other foodstuffs which had been prepared. Then the Gracious One
addressed Cunda the Smith, (saying):
“Throw that left over tender pork into a pit, Cunda, (for) I do not see,
Cunda, in the world with its Divinities, Māra, and Brahmā, in this
generation with its ascetics and brahmins, princes and men, one who,
having eaten it, could completely digest it, except for a Realised
One.” 129
“Very well, reverend Sir”, said Cunda the Smith, and after replying to
the Gracious One, and throwing what was left over of that tender pork
into a pit, he approached the Gracious One, and after approaching and
worshipping the Gracious One, he sat down on one side.
129 It is presumably this passage which makes people think that the last meal
was the cause of the Buddha's illness, however the Commentary denies this:
bhuttassa udapādi, na pana bhuttapaccayā; it occurred when he had eaten,
but not because he had eaten.
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