{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.99/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.99","id":"suttacentral_an5.99","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.99/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, toward evening the lion, king of beasts, emerges from his den, yawns, surveys the four quarters, and roars his lion\u2019s roar three times. Then he sets out on the hunt. If he strikes an elephant, he does it carefully, not carelessly. If he strikes a buffalo \u2026 a cow \u2026 a leopard \u2026 or any smaller creatures\u2014even a hare or a cat\u2014he does it carefully, not carelessly. Why is that? Thinking: \u2018May I not lose my way.\u2019 \u2018Lion\u2019 is a term for the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. When the Realized One teaches Dhamma to an assembly, this is his lion\u2019s roar. When the Realized One teaches the monks \u2026 nuns \u2026 laymen \u2026 laywomen \u2026 or ordinary people\u2014even food-carriers and hunters\u2014he teaches them carefully, not carelessly. Why is that? Because the Realized One has respect and reverence for the teaching.\u201d","title":"The Lion","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":146}