{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.78/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.78","id":"suttacentral_an5.78","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.78/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, seeing these five future perils is quite enough for a mendicant to meditate diligently, keenly, and resolutely for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. What five? A mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently I\u2019m a youth, young, with pristine black hair, blessed with youth, in the prime of life. But there will come a time when this body is struck with old age. When you\u2019re old, overcome by old age, it\u2019s not easy to focus on the instructions of the Buddhas, and it\u2019s not easy to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. Before that unlikable, undesirable, and disagreeable thing happens, I\u2019d better preempt it by rousing up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. That way, when it happens, I\u2019ll live comfortably even though I\u2019m old.\u2019 This is the first future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently, I\u2019m rarely ill or unwell. My stomach digests well, being neither too hot nor too cold, but just right, and fit for meditation. But there will come a time when this body is struck with sickness. When you\u2019re sick, overcome by sickness, it\u2019s not easy to focus on the instructions of the Buddhas, and it\u2019s not easy to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. Before that unlikable, undesirable, and disagreeable thing happens, I\u2019d better preempt it by rousing up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. That way, when it happens, I\u2019ll live comfortably even though I\u2019m sick.\u2019 This is the second future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently, there\u2019s plenty of food, a good harvest, so it\u2019s easy to get almsfood, and easy to keep going by collecting alms. But there will come a time of famine, a bad harvest, when it\u2019s hard to get almsfood, and not easy to keep going by collecting alms. In a time of famine, people move to where there\u2019s plenty of food, where they live crowded and cramped together. When you live crowded and cramped together, it\u2019s not easy to focus on the instructions of the Buddhas, and it\u2019s not easy to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. Before that unlikable, undesirable, and disagreeable thing happens, I\u2019d better preempt it by rousing up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. That way, when it happens, I\u2019ll live comfortably even though there\u2019s a famine.\u2019 This is the third future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently, people live in harmony, appreciating each other, without dispute, blending like milk and water, and regarding each other with kindly eyes. But there will come a time of peril due to turmoil in the wilds, so the countryfolk mount their vehicles and flee everywhere. In a time of peril, people move to where there\u2019s sanctuary, where they live crowded and cramped together. When you live crowded and cramped together, it\u2019s not easy to focus on the instructions of the Buddhas, and it\u2019s not easy to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. Before that unlikable, undesirable, and disagreeable thing happens, I\u2019d better preempt it by rousing up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. That way, when it happens, I\u2019ll live comfortably even in a time of peril.\u2019 This is the fourth future peril \u2026 Furthermore, a mendicant reflects: \u2018Currently, the Sa\u1e45gha lives comfortably, in harmony, appreciating each other, without dispute, with one recitation. But there will come a time of schism in the Sa\u1e45gha. When there is schism in the Sa\u1e45gha, it\u2019s not easy to focus on the instructions of the Buddhas, and it\u2019s not easy to frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. Before that unlikable, undesirable, and disagreeable thing happens, I\u2019d better preempt it by rousing up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized. That way, when it happens, I\u2019ll live comfortably even though there\u2019s schism in the Sa\u1e45gha.\u2019 This is the fifth future peril \u2026 These are the five future perils, seeing which is quite enough for a mendicant to meditate diligently, keenly, and resolutely for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized.\u201d","title":"Future Perils (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":701}