{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.22/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.22","id":"suttacentral_an10.22","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.22/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201c\u0100nanda, I claim to be self-assured regarding the teachings that lead to realizing by insight the various different hypotheses. So I am able to teach the Dhamma in appropriate ways to different people. Practicing accordingly, when something exists they\u2019ll know it exists. When it doesn\u2019t exist they\u2019ll know it doesn\u2019t exist. When something is inferior they\u2019ll know it\u2019s inferior. When it\u2019s superior they\u2019ll know it\u2019s superior. When something is not supreme they\u2019ll know it\u2019s not supreme. When it is supreme they\u2019ll know it\u2019s supreme. And they will know or see or realize it in whatever way it should be known or seen or realized. This is possible. But this is the unsurpassable knowledge, that is: truly knowing each and every case. And \u0100nanda, I say that there is no other knowledge better or finer than this. The Realized One possesses ten powers of a Realized One. With these he claims the bull\u2019s place, roars his lion\u2019s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel. What ten? Firstly, the Realized One truly understands the possible as possible, and the impossible as impossible. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. Relying on this he claims the bull\u2019s place, roars his lion\u2019s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel. Furthermore, the Realized One truly understands the result of deeds undertaken in the past, future, and present in terms of grounds and causes. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One truly understands where all paths of practice lead. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One truly understands the world with its many and diverse elements. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One truly understands the diverse convictions of sentient beings. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One truly understands the faculties of other sentient beings and other individuals after encompassing them with his mind. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One truly understands corruption, cleansing, and emergence regarding the absorptions, liberations, immersions, and attainments. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One recollects many kinds of past lives, with features and details. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, the Realized One sees sentient beings passing away and being reborn\u2014inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. He understands how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 Furthermore, the Realized One has realized the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, and lives having realized it with his own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. Since he truly understands this, this is a power of the Realized One. \u2026 These are the ten powers of a Realized One that the Realized One possesses. With these he claims the bull\u2019s place, roars his lion\u2019s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel.\u201d","title":"Hypotheses","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":584}