{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn5-6.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn5-6.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn5-6.htm","text":"Then Mara the Evil One, wanting to arouse fear, horripilation, & terror in her, wanting to make her fall from solitude, approached her & said, \"What is it that you don't approve of, nun?\"\n\"I don't approve of birth, my friend.\"\n[Mara:]\nWhy don't you approve of birth?\nOne who is born\nenjoys sensual pleasures.\nWho on earth\never persuaded you:\n'Nun, don't approve of birth'?\nFor one who is born\nthere's death.\nOne who is born\nsees pain.\nIt's a binding, a flogging, a torment.\nThat's why one shouldn't approve\nof birth.\nThe Awakened One taught me the Dhamma\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- the overcoming of birth -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for the abandoning of all pain,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he established me in\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the truth.\nBut beings who have come to form\n& those with a share in the formless,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 if they don't discern cessation,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return to becoming-again.","title":"SN V.6: Cala Sutta","type":"page"}