{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.76/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.76","id":"suttacentral_an4.76","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.76/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying between a pair of sal trees in the sal forest of the Mallas at Upavattana near Kusin\u0101r\u0101 at the time of his full extinguishment. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cPerhaps even a single mendicant has doubt or uncertainty regarding the Buddha, the teaching, the Sa\u1e45gha, the path, or the practice. So ask, mendicants! Don\u2019t regret it later, thinking: \u2018We were in the Teacher\u2019s presence and we weren\u2019t able to ask the Buddha a question.\u2019\u201d When this was said, the mendicants kept silent. For a second time the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u2026 For a second time, the mendicants kept silent. For a third time the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u2026 For a third time, the mendicants kept silent. Then the Buddha said to the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, perhaps you don\u2019t ask out of respect for the Teacher. So let a friend tell a friend.\u201d When this was said, the mendicants kept silent. Then Venerable \u0100nanda said to the Buddha: \u201cIt\u2019s incredible, sir, it\u2019s amazing! I am quite confident that there\u2019s not even a single mendicant in this Sa\u1e45gha who has doubt or uncertainty regarding the Buddha, the teaching, the Sa\u1e45gha, the path, or the practice.\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, you speak from faith. But the Realized One knows that there\u2019s not even a single mendicant in this Sa\u1e45gha who has doubt or uncertainty regarding the Buddha, the teaching, the Sa\u1e45gha, the path, or the practice. Even the last of these five hundred mendicants is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.\u201d","title":"At Kusin\u0101r\u0101","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":271}