{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-9.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-9.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-9.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSutta Nipata V.9\nTodeyya-manava-puccha\nTodeyya's Questions\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nTodeyya:\nOne in whom\nthere dwell no sensualities;\none in whom\nno craving is found;\none who has crossed over perplexity -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 his emancipation:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 what is it like?\nThe Buddha:\nOne in whom\nthere dwell no sensualities;\none in whom\nno craving is found;\none who has crossed over perplexity -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 his emancipation\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is not other than that.\nTodeyya:\nIs he without desire,\nor desiring?\nDiscerning or\nstill acquiring discernment?\nDescribe the sage to me, Sakyan\nwith the all-around eye,\nso that I may recognize\nwhat he is like.\nThe Buddha:\nHe's without desire,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 not desiring;\ndiscerning,\nnot still acquiring discernment.\nRecognize the sage, Todeyya,\nas having\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nothing,\nunentangled\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in sensuality\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 & becoming.\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"Sn V.9: Todeyya-manava-puccha","type":"page"}