"Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins ... remain addicted to such things as running errands and messages, such as for kings, ministers, nobles, Brahmins, householders and young men who say, "Go here, go there! Take this there, bring that from there," the ascetic Gotama refrains from such errand-running."
Refusal of work

January 1, 1970

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Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, § 1.19

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