{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.74/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.74","id":"suttacentral_an3.74","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.74/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time Venerable \u0100nanda was staying near Ves\u0101l\u012b, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof. Then the Licchavis Abhaya and Pa\u1e47\u1e0ditakum\u0101ra went up to Venerable \u0100nanda, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, the Jain ascetic of the \u00d1\u0101tika clan claims to be all-knowing and all-seeing, to know and see everything without exception, thus: \u2018Knowledge and vision are constantly and continually present to me, while walking, standing, sleeping, and waking.\u2019 He advocates the elimination of past deeds by fervent mortification, and breaking the bridge by not doing any new deeds. So with the ending of deeds, suffering ends; with the ending of suffering, feeling ends; and with the ending of feeling, all suffering will have been worn away. This is how to go beyond suffering by means of this purification by wearing away in the present life. What, sir, does the Buddha say about this?\u201d \u201cAbhaya, these three kinds of purification by wearing away have been rightly explained by the Blessed One, who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment. What three? It\u2019s when, Abhaya, a mendicant 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 don\u2019t perform any new deeds, and old deeds are eliminated by experiencing their results little by little. This wearing away is apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves. Then a mendicant accomplished in ethics, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption \u2026 second absorption \u2026 third absorption \u2026 fourth absorption. They don\u2019t perform any new deeds, and old deeds are eliminated by experiencing their results little by little. This wearing away is apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves. Then a mendicant accomplished in immersion realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. They don\u2019t perform any new deeds, and old deeds are eliminated by experiencing their results little by little. This wearing away is apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves. These are the three kinds of purification by wearing away that have been rightly explained by the Buddha \u2026 in order to realize extinguishment.\u201d When he said this, Pa\u1e47\u1e0ditakum\u0101ra said to Abhaya, \u201cDear Abhaya, is there anything in what \u0100nanda has said so well that you would disagree with?\u201d \u201cHow could I not agree with what was said so well by \u0100nanda? If anyone didn\u2019t agree with him, their head would explode!\u201d","title":"Jains","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":510}