Can we know whether the tree stands firm?
Hearing their reply, the Future Buddha uttered the third stanza:
It isn’t you I blame,—not I,—
Nor the other monkeys in the wood;
Vissasena alone is the one to blame,
Who asked you to tend his trees for him.
When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the leader of the monkeys was the youth who spoiled the garden, but the wise man was I myself.”
23. Two Dicers.
Take care!