{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn15-11.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn15-11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn15-11.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSamyutta Nikaya XV.11\nDuggata Sutta\nFallen on Hard Times\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nAt Savatthi. There the Blessed One said: \"From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. When you see someone who has fallen on hard times, overwhelmed with hard times, you should conclude: 'We, too, have experienced just this sort of thing in the course of that long, long time.'\n\"Why is that? From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries -- enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released.\"\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"SN XV.11: Duggata Sutta","type":"page"}