{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.1","id":"suttacentral_an4.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Vajjis at Wares Village. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, due to not understanding and not penetrating four things, both you and I have wandered and transmigrated for such a very long time. What four? Noble ethics, immersion, wisdom, and freedom. These noble ethics, immersion, wisdom, and freedom have been understood and comprehended. Craving for continued existence has been cut off; the leash to existence is ended; now there\u2019ll be no more future lives.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cEthics, immersion, and wisdom, and the supreme freedom: these things have been understood by Gotama the renowned. And so the Buddha, having insight, explained this teaching to the mendicants. The teacher made an end of suffering, seeing clearly, he is fully quenched.\u201d","title":"Understood","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":158}