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Serving the Buddha to seek happiness thus brings only calamity.
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The quote warns against treating service to the Buddha as a way to obtain personal happiness. It says that when devotion is used as a means to that reward, it brings the opposite result: calamity rather than well-being. The focus is on the purpose behind the service, not on service itself.
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- Global Medieval Sourcebook, Stanford University
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