{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.14/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.14","id":"suttacentral_an3.14","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.14/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, even a wheel-turning monarch, a just and principled king, does not wield power without having their own king.\u201d When he said this, one of the mendicants said to the Buddha: \u201cBut who is the king of the wheel-turning monarch, the just and principled king?\u201d \u201cIt is principle, monk,\u201d said the Buddha. \u201cMonk, a wheel-turning monarch provides just protection and security for his court, relying only on principle\u2014honoring, respecting, and venerating principle, having principle as his flag, banner, and authority. He provides just protection and security for his aristocrats, vassals, troops, brahmins and householders, people of town and country, ascetics and brahmins, beasts and birds. When he has done this, he wields power only in a principled manner. And this power cannot be undermined by any human enemy. In the same way, monk, a Realized One, a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha, a just and principled king, provides just protection and security regarding bodily actions, relying only on principle\u2014honoring, respecting, and venerating principle, having principle as his flag, banner, and authority. \u2018This kind of bodily action should be cultivated. This kind of bodily action should not be cultivated.\u2019 Furthermore, a Realized One \u2026 provides just protection and security regarding verbal actions, saying: \u2018This kind of verbal action should be cultivated. This kind of verbal action should not be cultivated.\u2019 \u2026 And regarding mental actions: \u2018This kind of mental action should be cultivated. This kind of mental action should not be cultivated.\u2019 And when a Realized One, a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha has provided just protection and security regarding actions of body, speech, and mind, he rolls forth the supreme Wheel of Dhamma. And that wheel cannot be rolled back by any ascetic or brahmin or god or M\u0101ra or divinity or by anyone in the world.\u201d","title":"The Wheel-Turning Monarch","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":299}