{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an2.36/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an2.36","id":"suttacentral_an2.36","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an2.36/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time Venerable S\u0101riputta was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in the stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother in the Eastern Monastery. There S\u0101riputta addressed the mendicants: \u201cReverends, mendicants!\u201d \u201cReverend,\u201d they replied. S\u0101riputta said this: \u201cI will teach you about an individual fettered internally and one fettered externally. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, reverend,\u201d they replied. S\u0101riputta said this: \u201cWho is an individual fettered internally? It\u2019s a mendicant who is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they\u2019ve undertaken. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in one of the orders of gods. When they pass away from there, they\u2019re a returner, who comes back to this place. This is called an individual who is fettered internally, a returner, who comes back to this place. Who is an individual fettered externally? It\u2019s a mendicant who is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they\u2019ve undertaken. They enter and remain in a certain peaceful state of freed mind. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in one of the orders of gods. When they pass away from there, they\u2019re a non-returner, not coming back to this place. This is called an individual who is fettered externally, a non-returner, who does not come back to this place. Furthermore, a mendicant is ethical \u2026 they keep the rules they\u2019ve undertaken. They simply practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding sensual pleasures. They simply practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding future lives. They practice for the ending of craving. They practice for the ending of greed. When their body breaks up, after death, they are reborn in one of the orders of gods. When they pass away from there, they are non-returners, not coming back to this place. This is called an individual who is fettered externally, a non-returner, who does not come back to this place.\u201d Then several peaceful-minded deities went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, Venerable S\u0101riputta is in the stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother in the Eastern Monastery, where he is teaching the mendicants about an individual with internal fetters and one with external fetters. The assembly is overjoyed! Sir, please go to Venerable S\u0101riputta out of sympathy.\u201d The Buddha consented with silence. Then the Buddha, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, vanished from Jeta\u2019s Grove and reappeared in the stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother in the Eastern Monastery, in front of S\u0101riputta. He sat down on the seat spread out. S\u0101riputta bowed to the Buddha and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cJust now, S\u0101riputta, several peaceful-minded deities came up to me, bowed, and stood to one side. Those deities said to me: \u2018Sir, Venerable S\u0101riputta is in the stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother in the Eastern Monastery, where he is teaching the mendicants about an individual with internal fetters and one with external fetters. The assembly is overjoyed! Sir, please go to Venerable S\u0101riputta out of sympathy.\u2019 Those deities, though they number ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, or sixty, can stand on the point of a needle without bumping up against each other. S\u0101riputta, you might think: \u2018Surely those deities, since so many of them can stand on the point of a needle without bumping up against each other, must have developed their minds in that place.\u2019 But you should not see it like this. It was right here that those deities developed their minds. So you should train like this: \u2018We shall have peaceful faculties and peaceful minds.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train. When your faculties and mind are peaceful, your acts of body, speech, and mind will be peaceful, thinking: \u2018We shall present the gift of peace to our spiritual companions.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train. Those wanderers of other religions, S\u0101riputta, who have not heard this exposition of the teaching are lost.\u201d","title":"36","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":711}