Welcome to the 189'th running of the 2021 Pedovore Stakes
There they GO!
Eric Swallwell gets a good start, Chas Schumer on the inside with touted favorite Marco Rubio, half a length back neck and neck with Mark Warner, in the way back Jim Hines and Joachim Castro with Adam Schiff 5 lengths back and fading.
This promises to be an exciting race over the next three days - you still have time to get those bets down!
Well these big stakes rat races run for three days.
In the troubled worlds of the five kinds of defilement,
Sentient beings are only attached to various desires,
And ultimately do not seek the path of the buddhas.
In the future the impure will hear
The Buddha teach the single vehicle,
But they will be confused and will not accept it.
They will reject the Dharma
And fall into the troubled states of being.
To those who are modest and pure,
And seek the path of the buddhas,
I will praise extensively
The path of the single vehicle.
O Sariputra!
You should know that the Dharma
Of all the buddhas is like this.
They teach the Dharma
With myriads of kotis of skillful means,
According to the capacities of sentient beings;
The inexperienced cannot understand this.
You have come to know with certainty the skillful means
Of the buddhas, the Teachers of the World,
That are expounded in accordance
With people’s capacities.
All of you, have no further doubts!
Let great joy arise in your hearts
And know that you will all become buddhas