sn47.9:4.1 “But what could the mendicant Saṅgha expect from me now, Ānanda?
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sn47.9:4.2 I’ve taught the Dhamma without making any distinction between secret and public teachings.
sn47.9:4.3 The Realized One doesn’t have the closed fist of a tutor when it comes to the teachings.
sn47.9:4.4 If there’s anyone who thinks:
sn47.9:4.5 ‘I shall lead the mendicant Saṅgha,’ or ‘the Saṅgha of mendicants is meant for me,’ let them bring something up regarding the Saṅgha.
sn47.9:4.6 But the Realized One doesn’t think like this,
sn47.9:4.8 so why should he bring something up regarding the Saṅgha?
sn47.9:4.9 Now I am old, elderly and senior. I’m advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life.
sn47.9:4.10 I’m currently eighty years old.
sn47.9:4.11 Just as a decrepit old cart is kept going by a rope,
sn47.9:4.12 in the same way, the Realized One’s body is kept going as if by a rope.