{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.23/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.23","id":"suttacentral_an6.23","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.23/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201c\u2018Danger\u2019, mendicants, is a term for sensual pleasures. \u2018Suffering\u2019, \u2018disease\u2019, \u2018boil\u2019, \u2018chain\u2019, and \u2018bog\u2019 are terms for sensual pleasures. And why is \u2018danger\u2019 a term for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from dangers in this life or in lives to come. That is why \u2018danger\u2019 is a term for sensual pleasures. And why are \u2018suffering\u2019, \u2018disease\u2019, \u2018boil\u2019, \u2018chain\u2019, and \u2018bog\u2019 terms for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from suffering, disease, boils, chains, or bogs in this life or in lives to come. That is why these are terms for sensual pleasures. Danger, suffering, disease, boils, and chains and bogs both. These describe the sensual pleasures to which ordinary people are attached. Seeing the danger in grasping, the origin of birth and death, the unattached are freed with the ending of birth and death. Happy, they\u2019ve come to a safe place, quenched in this very life. They\u2019ve gone beyond all enmities and fears, and risen above all suffering.\u201d","title":"Dangers","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":181}