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 Chapter V - BALA VAGGA - Fools

Concentrate on your body

WISE IS HE WHO ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FOOLISHNESS

Yo balo mannati balyam pandito va'pi tena so
Balo ca panditamani sa ve balo'ti vuccati.

The fool who knows that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man;
the fool who thinks that he is wise is called a fool indeed.



V: 04 How to differentiate the fools

On one occasion, two thieves joined a group of devotees going to the Jetavana monastery, where the Buddha was delivering a discourse. One of them listened attentively to the discourse and soon realised the Dhamma. However, the second thief did not pay any attention to the discourse and he went about stealing from the devotees.

After the discourse, both returned to the house of the second thief who taunted the first thief, 'You are so wise, you have no money to buy anything to cook in your house.' Hearing this remark, the first thief reflected, 'He is so foolish to think that he is wise.' Then, together with some relatives, he went to the Buddha and related the matter to him.

The Buddha explained that the fool who knows that he is a fool, can for that reason at least, be considered a wise man; but the fool who thinks that he is wise is, indeed, called a fool.

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