{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.32/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.32","id":"suttacentral_an3.32","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.32/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cCould it be, sir, that a mendicant might gain a state of immersion such that there\u2019s no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for this conscious body; and no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for externally for all signs; and that they\u2019d live having attained the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit are no more?\u201d \u201cIt could be, \u0100nanda, that a mendicant gains a state of immersion such that they have no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for this conscious body; and no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for externally for all signs; and that they\u2019d live having attained the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit are no more.\u201d \u201cBut how could this be, sir?\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, it\u2019s when a mendicant thinks: \u2018This is peaceful; this is sublime\u2014that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, cessation, extinguishment.\u2019 That\u2019s how, \u0100nanda, a mendicant might gain a state of immersion such that there\u2019s no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for this conscious body; and no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for externally for all signs; and that they\u2019d live having achieved the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit are no more. And \u0100nanda, this is what I was referring to in \u2018The Way to the Far Shore\u2019, in \u2018The Questions of Pu\u1e47\u1e47aka\u2019 when I said: \u2018Having appraised the world high and low, there is nothing in the world that disturbs them. Peaceful, unclouded, untroubled, <j>with no need for hope\u2014 they\u2019ve crossed over rebirth and old age, I declare.\u2019\u201d","title":"With \u0100nanda","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":315}