{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp1-1.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp1-1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp1-1.htm","text":"The monk who subdues his arisen anger\nas, with herbs, snake-venom once it has spread,\nsloughs off the near shore & far --\nas a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who has cut off passion\nwithout leaving a trace,\nas he would plunging into a lake, a lotus,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who has cut off craving\nwithout leaving a trace,\nas if he had dried up a swift-flowing stream,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who has demolished conceit\nwithout leaving a trace,\nas a great flood, a very weak bridge made of reeds,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk seeing\nin states of becoming\nno essence,\nas he would,\nwhen surveying a fig tree,\nno flowers,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk with no inner anger,\nwho has thus gone beyond\nbecoming & not-,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk whose discursive thoughts are dispersed,\nwell-dealt with inside\nwithout leaving a trace,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who hasn't slipped past or turned back,\ntranscending all\nthis differentiation,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who hasn't slipped past or turned back,\nknowing with regard to the world\nthat \"All this is unreal,\"\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who hasn't slipped past or turned back,\nwithout greed, as \"All this is unreal,\"\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who hasn't slipped past or turned back,\nwithout aversion, as \"All this is unreal,\"\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who hasn't slipped past or turned back,\nwithout delusion, as \"All this is unreal,\"\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk in whom there are no latent tendencies\n-- the roots of unskillfulness totally destroyed -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk in whom there's nothing born of distress\nthat would lead him back to this shore,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk in whom there's nothing born of desire\nthat would keep him bound to becoming,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.\nThe monk who's abandoned five hindrances,\nwho, untroubled, unwounded,\nhas crossed over doubt,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sloughs off the near shore & far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a snake, its decrepit old skin.","title":"Sn I.1: Uraga Sutta","type":"page"}