The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Third Chapter for Recitation
3) Furthermore, Ānanda, when the Buddha-to-be falls away from the
Tusita hosts, 86 and mindfully, with full awareness, enters his
mother's womb, this Earth moves, wavers, flutters, and shakes. This
is the third reason, the third cause for the occurrence of a great
earthquake.
4) Furthermore, Ānanda, when the Buddha-to-be mindfully, with full
awareness, exits his mother's womb, this Earth moves, wavers,
flutters, and shakes. This is the fourth reason, the fourth cause for
the occurrence of a great earthquake.
5) Furthermore, Ānanda, when the Realised One perfectly awakens to
the unsurpassed and Perfect Awakening, this Earth moves, wavers,
flutters, and shakes. This is the fifth reason, the fifth cause for the
occurrence of a great earthquake.
6) Furthermore, Ānanda, when the Realised One sets the unsurpassed
wheel of the Teaching rolling, this Earth moves, wavers, flutters,
and shakes. This is the sixth reason, the sixth cause for the
occurrence of a great earthquake.
7) Furthermore, Ānanda, when the Realised One mindfully, with full
awareness gives up the life-process, this Earth moves, wavers,
86 A Buddha-to-be is said to always spend his penultimate life amongst the
Gods in Tusita Heaven, and from there to descend to Earth for the last
time.
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