sn42.3:3.1 When he said this, Dustin the warrior chief cried and burst out in tears.
sn42.3:3.2 “This is what I didn’t get through to you when I said:
sn42.3:3.3 ‘Enough, chief, let it be. Don’t ask me that.’”
sn42.3:3.4 “Sir, I’m not crying because of what the Buddha said.
sn42.3:3.5 But sir, for a long time I’ve been cheated, tricked, and deceived by the warriors of the past who were tutors of tutors, who said:
sn42.3:3.6 ‘Suppose a warrior, while striving and struggling in battle, is killed and finished off by his foes. When his body breaks up, after death, he’s reborn in the company of the gods of the fallen.’
sn42.3:3.7 Excellent, sir! Excellent! …
sn42.3:3.8 From this day forth, may the Buddha remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”