{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-16.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-16.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSutta Nipata V.16\nPingiya-manava-puccha\nPingiya's Question\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nPingiya:\nI'm old & weak,\nmy complexion dull.\nI've blurry eyes\nand trouble hearing,\nbut may I not perish deluded,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 confused!\nTeach me the Dhamma\nso that I may know\nthe abandoning here\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of birth & aging.\nThe Buddha:\nSeeing people suffering\non account of their bodies -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 heedless people are oppressed\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on account of their bodies -- \nthen heedful, Pingiya,\nlet go of the body\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for the sake of no further becoming.\nPingiya:\nIn the four cardinal directions,\nthe four intermediate,\nabove & below\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- the ten directions -- \nthere is nothing in the world\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unseen, unheard,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unsensed, uncognized by you.\nTeach me the Dhamma\nso that I may know\nthe abandoning here\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of birth & aging.\nThe Buddha:\nSeeing people,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 victims of craving -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 aflame, overwhelmed with aging -- \nthen heedful, Pingiya,\nlet go of craving\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for the sake of no further becoming.\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"Sn V.16: Pingiya-manava-puccha","type":"page"}