{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an7.50/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an7.50","id":"suttacentral_an7.50","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.50/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then the brahmin J\u0101nusso\u1e47i went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha, \u201cDoes Worthy Gotama claim to be chaste?\u201d \u201cBrahmin, if anyone should be rightly said to live the chaste life intact, impeccable, spotless, and unmarred, full and pure, it\u2019s me.\u201d \u201cBut what, Worthy Gotama, is a break, taint, stain, or mar in chastity?\u201d \u201cFirstly, an ascetic or brahmin who claims to be perfectly chaste does not mutually engage in sex with a lady. However, they consent to being anointed, massaged, bathed, and rubbed by a lady. They enjoy it and like it and find it rewarding. This is a break, taint, stain, or mar in chastity. This is called one who lives the chaste life impurely, yoked by the yoke of sex. They\u2019re not freed from rebirth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not freed from suffering, I say. Furthermore, an ascetic or brahmin who claims to be perfectly chaste does not mutually engage in sex with a lady. Nor do they consent to massage and bathing. However, they giggle and play and have fun with ladies. \u2026 they gaze into a lady\u2019s eyes. \u2026 they listen through a wall or rampart to the sound of ladies laughing or chatting or singing or crying. \u2026 they recall when they used to laugh, chat, and have fun with ladies. \u2026 they see a householder or their child amusing themselves, supplied and provided with the five kinds of sensual stimulation. \u2026 They don\u2019t see a householder or their child amusing themselves, supplied and provided with the five kinds of sensual stimulation. However, they live the chaste life wishing to be reborn in one of the orders of gods. They think: \u2018By this precept or observance or fervent austerity or spiritual practice, may I become one of the gods!\u2019 They enjoy it and like it and find it rewarding. This is a break, taint, stain, or mar in chastity. This is called one who lives the chaste life impurely, yoked by the yoke of sex. They\u2019re not free from rebirth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not free from suffering, I say. As long as I saw that these seven sexual yokes\u2014or even one of them\u2014had not been given up in me, I didn\u2019t announce my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans. But when I saw that these seven sexual yokes\u2014every one of them\u2014had been given up in me, I announced my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans. Knowledge and vision arose in me: \u2018My freedom is unshakable; this is my last rebirth; now there\u2019ll be no more future lives.\u2019\u201d When he said this, the brahmin J\u0101nusso\u1e47i said to the Buddha, \u201cExcellent, worthy Gotama! Excellent! \u2026 From this day forth, may the worthy Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.\u201d","title":"Sex","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":528}