{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.85/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.85","id":"suttacentral_an3.85","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.85/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, they speak of the one called \u2018a trainee\u2019. How is a trainee defined?\u201d \u201cThey train, mendicant, that\u2019s why they\u2019re called \u2018a trainee\u2019. What is their training? They train in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom. They train, that\u2019s why they\u2019re called \u2018a trainee\u2019. As a trainee trains, following the straight road, first they know about ending; enlightenment follows in the same lifetime. Then the knowledge comes such a one, freed through enlightenment, with the end of the fetters of continued existence: \u2018My freedom is unshakable.\u2019\u201d","title":"A Trainee","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":108}