mn89:13.1 Furthermore, as an anointed aristocratic king
mn89:13.2 I am able to execute, fine, or banish those who are guilty.
mn89:13.3 Yet when I’m sitting in court they interrupt me.
mn89:13.4 And I can’t get them
mn89:13.5 to stop interrupting me and wait until I’ve finished speaking.
mn89:13.7 But here I see the mendicants
mn89:13.8 while the Buddha is teaching an assembly of many hundreds, and there is no sound of his disciples coughing or clearing their throats.
mn89:13.9 Once it so happened that the Buddha was teaching an assembly of many hundreds.
mn89:13.10 Then one of his disciples cleared their throat.
mn89:13.11 And one of their spiritual companions nudged them with their knee, to indicate:
mn89:13.12 ‘Hush, venerable, don’t make a sound! Our teacher, the Blessed One, is teaching!’
mn89:13.13 It occurred to me:
mn89:13.14 ‘Oh lord, how incredible, how amazing,
mn89:13.15 how an assembly can be so well trained without rod or sword!’
mn89:13.16 I don’t see any other assembly elsewhere so well trained.
mn89:13.17 So I infer this about the Buddha from the teaching:
mn89:13.18 ‘The Blessed One is a fully awakened Buddha. The teaching is well explained. The Saṅgha is practicing well.’