mn86:6.1 Then he addressed the Buddha in verse:
mn86:6.2 “While walking, ascetic, you say ‘I’ve stopped.’
mn86:6.3 And I have stopped, but you tell me I’ve not.
mn86:6.4 I’m asking you this, ascetic:
mn86:6.5 how is it you’ve stopped and I have not?”
mn86:6.6 “Aṅgulimāla, I have forever stopped—
mn86:6.7 I’ve laid aside violence toward all creatures.
mn86:6.8 But you can’t stop yourself <j>from harming living creatures;
mn86:6.9 that’s why I’ve stopped, but you have not.”
mn86:6.10 “Oh, at long last a renowned great seer,
mn86:6.11 an ascetic has followed me into this deep wood.
mn86:6.12 Now that I’ve heard your verse on Dhamma,
mn86:6.13 I shall live without evil.”
mn86:6.14 With these words, <j>the bandit hurled his sword and weapons
mn86:6.15 down a cliff into an abyss.
mn86:6.16 He venerated the Holy One’s feet,
mn86:6.17 and requested the going forth right away.
mn86:6.18 Then the Buddha, the compassionate great seer,
mn86:6.19 the Teacher of the world with its gods,
mn86:6.20 said to him, “Come, monk!”
mn86:6.21 And with that he became a monk.