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The Emperor

“SN 55.1 Rāja Sutta: The Emperor”

No matter how mighty an emperor is, if they have not got full confidence in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha and they are not confident that developing virtue is the right way to be, they can still fall into hell.

“And between the gaining of the four continents and the gaining of these four qualities, the gaining of the four continents is not equal to one sixteenth of the gaining of these four qualities.”

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