{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.90/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.90","id":"suttacentral_an4.90","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.90/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, these four individuals are found in the world. What four? The confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the delicate ascetic of ascetics. And how is an individual a confirmed ascetic? It\u2019s when a mendicant is a trainee who hasn\u2019t achieved their heart\u2019s desire, but lives aspiring to the supreme sanctuary from the yoke. That\u2019s how an individual is a confirmed ascetic. And how is an individual a white lotus ascetic? It\u2019s when a mendicant meditates observing rise and fall in the five grasping aggregates. \u2018Such is form, such is the origin of form, such is the disappearance of form. Such is feeling \u2026 Such is perception \u2026 Such are choices \u2026 Such is consciousness, such is the origin of consciousness, such is the disappearance of consciousness.\u2019 But they don\u2019t have direct meditative experience of the eight liberations. That\u2019s how an individual is a white lotus ascetic. And how is an individual a pink lotus ascetic? It\u2019s when a mendicant meditates observing rise and fall in the five grasping aggregates. \u2018Such is form, such is the origin of form, such is the disappearance of form. Such is feeling \u2026 Such is perception \u2026 Such are choices \u2026 Such is consciousness, such is the origin of consciousness, such is the disappearance of consciousness.\u2019 And they have direct meditative experience of the eight liberations. That\u2019s how an individual is a pink lotus ascetic. And how is an individual a delicate ascetic of ascetics? It\u2019s when a mendicant usually uses only what they\u2019ve been invited to accept \u2026 And if anyone should be rightly called a delicate ascetic of ascetics, it\u2019s me. These are the four individuals found in the world.\u201d","title":"Aggregates","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":283}