{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.8","id":"suttacentral_an4.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a Realized One possesses four kinds of self-assurance. With these he claims the bull\u2019s place, roars his lion\u2019s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel. What four? I see no reason for anyone\u2014whether ascetic, brahmin, god, M\u0101ra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world\u2014to legitimately scold me, saying: \u2018You claim to be a fully awakened Buddha, but you don\u2019t understand these things.\u2019 Since I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured. I see no reason for anyone\u2014whether ascetic, brahmin, god, M\u0101ra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world\u2014to legitimately scold me, saying: \u2018You claim to have ended all defilements, but you still have these defilements.\u2019 Since I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured. I see no reason for anyone\u2014whether ascetic, brahmin, god, M\u0101ra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world\u2014to legitimately scold me, saying: \u2018The acts that you say are obstructions are not really obstructions for the one who performs them.\u2019 Since I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured. I see no reason for anyone\u2014whether ascetic, brahmin, god, M\u0101ra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world\u2014to legitimately scold me, saying: \u2018Regardless of your goal in teaching the Dhamma, it does not deliver one who applies it to the complete ending of suffering.\u2019 Since I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured. A Realized One possesses these four kinds of self-assurance. With these he claims the bull\u2019s place, roars his lion\u2019s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel. The various grounds for criticism that ascetics and brahmins rely on vanish on reaching a Realized One, self-assured, gone beyond grounds for criticism. He rolls forth the Wheel of Dhamma <j>as a consummate one, complete, sympathetic for all living creatures. Sentient beings revere him, <j>first among gods and humans, who has gone beyond rebirth.\u201d","title":"Self-assured","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":318}