{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.51/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.51","id":"suttacentral_an6.51","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.51/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to Venerable S\u0101riputta, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, \u0100nanda sat down to one side, and said to S\u0101riputta: \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, how does a mendicant get to hear a teaching they haven\u2019t heard before? How do they remember those teachings they have heard? How do they keep exercising the teachings with which they are already familiar? And how do they come to understand what they haven\u2019t understood before?\u201d \u201cWell, Venerable \u0100nanda, you\u2019re very learned. Why don\u2019t you clarify this yourself?\u201d \u201cWell then, Reverend S\u0101riputta, listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, reverend,\u201d S\u0101riputta replied. \u0100nanda said this: \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, take a mendicant who memorizes the teaching\u2014 statements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations. Then, just as they learned and memorized it, they teach others in detail, make them recite in detail, they rehearse it themselves in detail, and they think about and consider the teaching in their heart, examining it with the mind. They enter the rains retreat in a monastery with senior mendicants who are very learned, inheritors of the heritage, who have memorized the teachings, the monastic law, and the outlines. From time to time they go up to those mendicants and ask them questions: \u2018Why, sir, does it say this? What does that mean?\u2019 Those venerables reveal what is hidden, clarify what is unclear, and dispel doubt regarding the many doubtful matters. This is how a mendicant gets to hear a teaching they haven\u2019t heard before. It\u2019s how they remember those teachings they have heard. It\u2019s how they keep exercising the teachings with which they are already familiar. And it\u2019s how they come to understand what they haven\u2019t understood before.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s incredible, reverend, it\u2019s amazing! How well said this was by Venerable \u0100nanda! And we will remember Venerable \u0100nanda as someone who possesses these six qualities. For \u0100nanda memorizes the teaching \u2026 statements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations. Those venerables reveal to \u0100nanda what is hidden, clarify what is unclear, and dispel doubt regarding the many doubtful matters.\u201d","title":"With \u0100nanda","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":369}