“Rahula, develop meditation that is like water. … Just as people wash clean things and dirty things, excrement, urine, spittle, pus, and blood in water, and the water is not horrified, humiliated, and disgusted because of that, so too, Rahula, develop meditation that is like water.”

Sutta 62, verse 14, p. 530
Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Majjhima Nikaya (Middle Length Discourses)

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philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BC

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