{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an2.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an2.5","id":"suttacentral_an2.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an2.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, I have learned these two things for myself\u2014 to never be content with skillful qualities, and to never stop trying. I never stopped trying, thinking: \u2018Gladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body! I will not stop trying until I have achieved what is possible by human strength, energy, and vigor.\u2019 It was by diligence that I achieved awakening, and by diligence that I achieved the supreme sanctuary from the yoke. If you too never stop trying, thinking: \u2018Gladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body! I will not stop trying until I have achieved what is possible by human strength, energy, and vigor.\u2019 You will soon realize the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. You will live having achieved with your own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness. So you should train like this: \u2018We will never stop trying, thinking: \u201cGladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body! I will not stop trying until I have achieved what is possible by human strength, energy, and vigor.\u201d\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train.\u201d","title":"5. Learned for Myself","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":216}