Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines
The sea is not my problem,
My task is not the mountains,
My job is not the earth;
My calling’s rather to attend
That I should never fail
Repaying kindness granted me.
This quotation, from the Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines, is found in a teaching of the Buddha, where he recounts the story of a serpentine king, as an admonition to his monks for quarreling. It can be found in Je Tsongkhapa’s Preparing for Tantra: The Mountain of Blessings.
The sea is not my problem,
My task is not the mountains,
My job is not the earth;
My calling’s rather to attend
That I should never fail
Repaying kindness granted me.
This quotation, from the Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines, is found in a teaching of the Buddha, where he recounts the story of a serpentine king, as an admonition to his monks for quarreling. It can be found in Je Tsongkhapa’s Preparing for Tantra: The Mountain of Blessings.
