{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.35/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.35","id":"suttacentral_an3.35","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.35/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near \u0100\u1e37av\u012b, on a mat of leaves by a cow-path in a rosewood grove. Then as Hatthaka of \u0100\u1e37av\u012b was going for a walk he saw the Buddha sitting on that mat of leaves. He went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said, \u201cSir, I trust the Buddha slept well?\u201d \u201cYes, prince, I slept well. I am one of those who sleep at ease in the world.\u201d \u201cThe winter nights are cold, sir, and it\u2019s the week of mid-winter, when the snow falls. Rough is the ground trampled under the cows\u2019 hooves, and thin is the mat of leaves. The leaves are sparse on the trees, the ocher robes are cold, and cold blows the north wind. And yet the Buddha says, \u2018Yes, prince, I slept well. I am one of those who sleep at ease in the world.\u2019\u201d \u201cWell then, prince, I\u2019ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like. What do you think? Take the case of a householder or his son, who lives in a bungalow, plastered inside and out, draft-free, with door fastened and window shuttered. His couch is spread with woolen covers\u2014shag-piled, pure white, or embroidered with flowers\u2014and spread with a fine deer hide. It has a canopy above and red pillows at both ends. An oil lamp is burning there, while his four wives attend to him in all manner of agreeable ways. What do you think, prince, would he sleep at ease, or not? Or how do you see this?\u201d \u201cHe would sleep at ease, sir. Of those who sleep at ease in the world, he would be one.\u201d \u201cWhat do you think, prince? Is it not possible that a fever born of greed\u2014physical or mental\u2014might arise in that householder or householder\u2019s son, burning him so he sleeps badly?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cThe greed that burns that householder or householder\u2019s son, making them sleep badly, has been cut off at the root by the Realized One, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. That\u2019s why I sleep at ease. What do you think, prince? Is it not possible that a fever born of hate \u2026 or a fever born of delusion\u2014physical or mental\u2014might arise in that householder or householder\u2019s son, burning him so he sleeps badly?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cThe delusion that burns that householder or householder\u2019s son, making them sleep badly, has been cut off at the root by the Realized One, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. That\u2019s why I sleep at ease. A brahmin who is fully quenched always sleeps at ease. Sensual pleasures slip off them, they\u2019re cooled, free of attachments. Since they\u2019ve cut off all clinging, and removed the stress from the heart, the peaceful sleep at ease, having found peace of mind.\u201d","title":"With Hatthaka","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":487}