{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.77/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.77","id":"suttacentral_an5.77","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.77/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, seeing these five future perils is quite enough for a wilderness mendicant to meditate diligently, keenly, and resolutely for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. What five? Firstly, a wilderness mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently I\u2019m living alone in a wilderness. While living here alone I might get bitten by a snake, a scorpion, or a centipede. And if I died from that it would be an obstacle to my progress. I\u2019d better rouse up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u2019 This is the first future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a wilderness mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently I\u2019m living alone in a wilderness. While living here alone I might stumble off a cliff, or get food poisoning, or suffer a disturbance of bile, phlegm, or piercing winds. And if I died from that it would be an obstacle to my progress. I\u2019d better rouse up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u2019 This is the second future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a wilderness mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently I\u2019m living alone in a wilderness. While living here alone I might encounter wild beasts\u2014a lion, a tiger, a leopard, a bear, or a hyena\u2014which might take my life. And if I died from that it would be an obstacle to my progress. I\u2019d better rouse up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u2019 This is the third future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a wilderness mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently I\u2019m living alone in a wilderness. While living here alone I might encounter youths escaping a crime or on their way to commit one, and they might take my life. And if I died from that it would be an obstacle to my progress. I\u2019d better rouse up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u2019 This is the fourth future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a wilderness mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently I\u2019m living alone in a wilderness. But in a wilderness there are savage monsters who might take my life. And if I died from that it would be an obstacle to my progress. I\u2019d better rouse up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u2019 This is the fifth future peril \u2026 These are the five future perils, seeing which is quite enough for a wilderness mendicant to meditate diligently, keenly, and resolutely for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u201d","title":"Future Perils (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":409}