{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn5-8.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn5-8.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn5-8.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, \"Whose philosophy do you approve of, nun?\"\n\"I don't approve of anyone's philosophy, my friend.\"\n[Mara:]\nFor whose sake\nhave you shaved your head?\nYou look like a contemplative\nbut don't approve of a philosophy,\nso why are you wandering here\nconfused?\n[Sister Sisupacala:]\nOutside philosophers place\ntheir confidence in views.\nI don't approve\nof their teaching.\nThey're not adept\nin the Dhamma.\nBut there is\nthe Awakened One,\nborn in the Sakyan clan,\na person without peer:\nall-conquering,\nMara's subduer,\neverywhere undefeated,\neverywhere freed, independent;\nendowed with an Eye\nall-seeing, reaching the end of\nall kamma --\nwith the ending of acquisitions,\nreleased.\nHe, that Blessed One,\nis my teacher.\nIt's in his Dhamma\nthat I delight.\nThen Mara the Evil One -- sad & dejected at realizing, \"Sisupacala the nun knows me\" -- vanished right there.","title":"SN V.8: Sisupacala Sutta","type":"page"}