365. {368.} Ekacampakapupphiya (THA-AP370)

The Sambuddha named Upasanta
was living on a mountainside.
Carrying one campaka bloom
I approached the Ultimate Man.

Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
taking it with both of my hands,
I worshipped the Unconquered One,
the Unexcelled Pacceka-Sage.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I did pūjā with that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Ekacampakapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekacampakapupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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