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6) When the Lord Buddha faced an expert on debate, He used His wisdom to solve this problem. Each of His words possessed truth, correctness, and reason. 7) In one case, Ven. Moggallana,13 as the Lord Buddha’s representative, suppressed the great serpent, named Nandopānanda. Nandopānanda possessed the Wrong View and was violently poisonous. Thus, Ven. Moggallana used supernatural powers to defeat the stubborn serpent. 8) When the Lord Buddha encountered a being that possessed Wrong View, such as a Brahma, He used a high level of wisdom in Buddhism in order to match the Brahma’s level and was able to persuade the Brahma to accept the Right View. “We face less demanding obstacles than the Lord Buddha encountered in His final lifetime. Yet in facing our obstacles, we should follow the footsteps of the Lord Buddha. We must first scrutinize our ability to observe the precepts and make improvements. When we conduct ourselves well, all else that is good will follow.” Remember, no matter how serious our problems are we must be patient and solve them. Most of our encounters with problems were caused by our unwholesome actions from the past. We should remember that the darker the sky becomes, 13 One of the two chief disciples of the Lord Buddha who excelled all others in psychic powers.