{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-12.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-12.htm","text":"I entreat the one\nwho is very intelligent,\nreleased, unperturbed --\nwho has abandoned home,\nabandoned delight,\nabandoned resemblances,\ncut through craving,\ncrossed over the flood.\nHaving heard the Great One, they will leave --\nthe many gathered\nfrom many lands, hero,\nin hopes of your words.\nSo tell them, please,\nhow this Dhamma has\nbeen known to you.\nSubdue craving & clinging -- all -- \nabove, below,\nacross, in between. [1]\nFor whatever people cling to in the world,\nit's through that\nthat Mara pursues them.\nSo a monk, mindful,\nseeing these people\nclinging to entanglement\nas entangled in Death's realm,\nshould cling to nothing\nin all the world,\nevery world.\n1. For Nd.II's discussion of the various meanings of the objects of craving \"above, below, across, in between,\" see Note [2] to Sn.V.4 (Mettagu's Question). [Go back]","title":"Sn V.12: Bhadravudha-manava-puccha","type":"page"}