{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.219/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.219","id":"suttacentral_an10.219","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.219/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, I don\u2019t say that intentional deeds that have been performed and accumulated are eliminated without being experienced. And that may be in this very life, or in the next life, or in some subsequent period. But in any case, there is no making an end of suffering without experiencing intentional deeds that have been performed and accumulated, I say. That noble disciple is rid of desire, rid of ill will, unconfused, aware, and mindful. They meditate spreading a heart full of love to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of love to the whole world\u2014abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will. They understand: \u2018Formerly my mind was limited and undeveloped. Now it\u2019s limitless and well developed. Whatever limited deeds I\u2019ve done don\u2019t remain or persist there.\u2019 What do you think, mendicants? Suppose a child had developed the heart\u2019s release by love from their childhood on. Would they still do any bad deed?\u201d \u201cNo, sir.\u201d \u201cNot doing any bad deed, would they still experience any suffering?\u201d \u201cNo, sir. For if they don\u2019t do any bad deed, from where would suffering afflict them?\u201d \u201cThis heart\u2019s release by love should be developed by women or men. For neither women nor men take this body with them when they go. The mind is what\u2019s inside mortal beings. They understand: \u2018Whatever bad deeds I have done in the past with this deed-born body I will experience here. It will not follow me to my next life.\u2019 The heart\u2019s release by love developed in this way leads to non-return for a wise mendicant here who has not penetrated to a higher freedom. They meditate spreading a heart full of compassion \u2026 They meditate spreading a heart full of rejoicing \u2026 They meditate spreading a heart full of equanimity to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of equanimity to the whole world\u2014abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will. They understand: \u2018Formerly my mind was limited and undeveloped. Now it\u2019s limitless and well developed. Whatever limited deeds I\u2019ve done don\u2019t remain or persist there.\u2019 What do you think, mendicants? Suppose a child had developed the heart\u2019s release by equanimity from their childhood on. Would they still do any bad deed?\u201d \u201cNo, sir.\u201d \u201cNot doing any bad deed, would they still experience any suffering?\u201d \u201cNo, sir. For if they don\u2019t do any bad deed, from where would suffering afflict them?\u201d \u201cThis heart\u2019s release by equanimity should be developed by women or men. For neither women nor men take this body with them when they go. The mind is what\u2019s inside mortal beings. They understand: \u2018Whatever bad deeds I have done in the past with this deed-born body I will experience here. It will not follow me to my next life.\u2019 The heart\u2019s release by equanimity developed in this way leads to non-return for a wise mendicant here who has not penetrated to a higher freedom.\u201d","title":"The Body Born of Deeds","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":527}