{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.188/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.188","id":"suttacentral_an4.188","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.188/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Once the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain. Then Upaka the son of Ma\u1e47\u1e0dik\u0101 went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, this is my doctrine and view: \u2018Whoever goes on complaining about others without giving any reasons is reprehensible and at fault.\u2019\u201d \u201cUpaka, if someone goes on complaining about others without giving a reason, they\u2019re reprehensible and at fault. But that\u2019s what you do, so you\u2019re reprehensible and at fault!\u201d \u201cSir, like a fish caught in a big trap just as it rises, so the Buddha caught me in a big trap of words just as I rose up.\u201d \u201cUpaka, I\u2019ve declared: \u2018This is unskillful.\u2019 And for that there are limitless words, phrasings, and teachings of the Realized One: \u2018This is another way of saying that this is unskillful.\u2019 I\u2019ve declared: \u2018The unskillful should be given up.\u2019 And for that there are limitless words, phrasings, and teachings of the Realized One: \u2018This is another way of saying that the unskillful should be given up.\u2019 I\u2019ve declared that: \u2018This is skillful.\u2019 And for that there are limitless words, phrasings, and teachings of the Realized One: \u2018This is another way of saying that this is skillful.\u2019 I\u2019ve declared: \u2018The skillful should be developed.\u2019 And for that there are limitless words, phrasings, and teachings of the Realized One: \u2018This is another way of saying that the skillful should be developed.\u2019\u201d And then Upaka son of Ma\u1e47\u1e0dik\u0101 approved and agreed with what the Buddha said. He got up from his seat, bowed and respectfully circled the Buddha, keeping him on his right. Then he went up to King Aj\u0101tasattu of Magadha, son of the princess of Videha. He told the King of all they had discussed. But Aj\u0101tasattu became angry and upset, and said to Upaka, \u201cHow rude of this salt-maker\u2019s boy! How scurrilous and impudent of him to imagine he could attack the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha! Get out, Upaka, go away! Don\u2019t let me see you again.\u201d","title":"With Upaka","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":343}