{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.96/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.96","id":"suttacentral_an10.96","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.96/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time Venerable \u0100nanda was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Hot Springs Monastery. Then \u0100nanda rose at the crack of dawn and went to the hot springs to bathe. When he had bathed and emerged from the water he stood in one robe drying his limbs. The wanderer Kokanada also rose at the crack of dawn and went to the hot springs to bathe. He saw \u0100nanda coming off in the distance and said to him, \u201cWho\u2019s here, reverend?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a mendicant, reverend.\u201d \u201cOf which mendicants?\u201d \u201cOf the ascetics who follow the Sakyan.\u201d \u201cI\u2019d like to ask the venerable about a certain point, if you\u2019d take the time to answer.\u201d \u201cAsk, reverend. When I\u2019ve heard it I\u2019ll know.\u201d \u201cIs this your view: \u2018The cosmos is eternal. This is the only truth, anything else is futile\u2019?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s not my view, reverend.\u201d \u201cThen is this your view: \u2018The cosmos is not eternal. This is the only truth, anything else is futile\u2019?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s not my view, reverend.\u201d \u201cThen is this your view: \u2018The cosmos is finite \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The cosmos is infinite \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The soul and the body are one and the same \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The soul is one thing, the body another \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one still exists after death \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one no longer exists after death \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one both still exists and no longer exists after death \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death. This is the only truth, anything else is futile\u2019?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s not my view, reverend.\u201d \u201cThen, sir, do you neither know nor see?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s not so, reverend. I do know and see.\u201d \u201cWhen asked about all these points, you say that\u2019s not your view. Yet when asked whether you neither know nor see, you say, \u2018That\u2019s not so, reverend. I do know and see.\u2019 How then should we see the meaning of this statement?\u201d \u201c\u2018The cosmos is eternal. This is the only truth, anything else is futile:\u2019 that\u2019s a misconception. \u2018The cosmos is not eternal. This is the only truth, anything else is futile:\u2019 that\u2019s a misconception. \u2018The cosmos is finite \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The cosmos is infinite \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The soul and the body are one and the same \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The soul is one thing, the body another \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one still exists after death \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one no longer exists after death \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one both still exists and no longer exists after death \u2026\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death. This is the only truth, anything else is futile:\u2019 that\u2019s a misconception. I know and see the scope of convictions, the scope of grounds for views, fixation on views, obsession with views, the origin of views, and the uprooting of views. Knowing and seeing thus, why should I say: \u2018I neither know nor see?\u2019 I do know and see.\u201d \u201cWhat is the venerable\u2019s name? And how are you known among your spiritual companions?\u201d \u201cReverend, my name is \u0100nanda. And that\u2019s how I\u2019m known among my spiritual companions.\u201d \u201cGoodness! I had no idea I was consulting such a great tutor as Venerable \u0100nanda! If I had known who you were, I wouldn\u2019t have said so much. May Venerable \u0100nanda please forgive me.\u201d","title":"With Kokanada","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":555}