{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.173/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.173","id":"suttacentral_an4.173","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.173/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable Mah\u0101ko\u1e6d\u1e6dhita went up to Venerable S\u0101riputta, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, Mah\u0101ko\u1e6d\u1e6dhita sat down to one side, and said to S\u0101riputta: \u201cReverend, when the six fields of contact have faded away and ceased with no residue left behind, does something else still exist?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t put it like that, reverend.\u201d \u201cDoes something else no longer exist?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t put it like that, reverend.\u201d \u201cDoes something else both still exist and no longer exist?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t put it like that, reverend.\u201d \u201cDoes something else neither still exist nor no longer exist?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t put it like that, reverend.\u201d \u201cReverend, when asked whether\u2014when the six fields of contact have faded away and ceased with no residue left behind\u2014something else still exists, you say \u2018don\u2019t put it like that\u2019. When asked whether something else no longer exists, you say \u2018don\u2019t put it like that\u2019. When asked whether something else both still exists and no longer exists, you say \u2018don\u2019t put it like that\u2019. When asked whether something else neither still exists nor no longer exists, you say \u2018don\u2019t put it like that\u2019. How then should we see the meaning of this statement?\u201d \u201cIn saying that, \u2018When the six fields of contact have faded away and ceased with no residue left behind, something else still exists\u2019, you\u2019re proliferating the unproliferated. In saying that, \u2018something else no longer exists\u2019, you\u2019re proliferating the unproliferated. In saying that, \u2018something else both still exists and no longer exists\u2019, you\u2019re proliferating the unproliferated. In saying that, \u2018something else neither still exists nor no longer exists\u2019, you\u2019re proliferating the unproliferated. The scope of proliferation extends as far as the scope of the six fields of contact. The scope of the six fields of contact extends as far as the scope of proliferation. When the six fields of contact fade away and cease with no residue left behind, proliferation stops and is stilled.\u201d","title":"With Mah\u0101ko\u1e6d\u1e6dhita","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":318}