<<네 가지 마음챙기는 공부>>(초기불전연구원): 87-88

   There lived Tissa, a verable monk from a rich family who renounced his wealth of forty million gold. He stayed in a secluded forest without any village nearby. His younger brother's wife ordered five hundred thieves to kill him. The thieves came and surrounded him. He asked,

   “Laymen, why have you come her?”

   “To kill you.”

   “Laymen, please trust me and kill me after this night.”

   “How can we trust you here?”

   The venerable monk lifted a big stone and cut his two legs under his laps.

   “Can you trust me now?” he said.

   The thieves sat down at the end of the walking lane which used to be used for walking meditation.

Tissa relaxed his pain, and reflecting how he had kept his precepts, joy and happiness appeared. Step by step he practiced vipassana. He attained arahatship around day break. He sang with an exclamation like this:

'I will show you by cutting two legs.

I'm deeply worried about and ashamed of dying with the sensual desire.'

Thinking so, I had seen through what is.

Around daybreak finally I attained arahatship.