{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an7.54/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an7.54","id":"suttacentral_an7.54","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.54/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, what is the cause, what is the reason why a learned noble disciple has no doubts regarding the undeclared points?\u201d \u201cMendicant, it\u2019s due to the cessation of views that a learned noble disciple has no doubts regarding the undeclared points. \u2018A realized one still exists after death\u2019: this is a misconception. \u2018A realized one no longer exists after death\u2019: this is a misconception. \u2018A realized one both still exists and no longer exists after death\u2019: this is a misconception. \u2018A realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death\u2019: this is a misconception. An unlearned ordinary person doesn\u2019t understand views, their origin, their cessation, or the practice that leads to their cessation. And so their views grow. They\u2019re not freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not freed from suffering, I say. A learned noble disciple does understand views, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. And so their views cease. They\u2019re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re freed from suffering, I say. Knowing and seeing this, a learned noble disciple does not answer: \u2018A realized one still exists after death\u2019, \u2018A realized one no longer exists after death\u2019, \u2018A realized one both still exists and no longer exists after death\u2019, \u2018A realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death.\u2019 Knowing and seeing this, a learned noble disciple does not declare the undeclared points. Knowing and seeing this, a learned noble disciple doesn\u2019t shake, tremble, quake, or get nervous regarding the undeclared points. \u2018A realized one still exists after death\u2019: this is just about craving. \u2026 it\u2019s just about perception \u2026 it\u2019s a conceiving \u2026 it\u2019s a proliferation \u2026 it\u2019s just about grasping \u2026 \u2018A realized one still exists after death\u2019: this is a regret. \u2018A realized one no longer exists after death\u2019: this is a regret. \u2018A realized one both still exists and no longer exists after death\u2019: this is a regret. \u2018A realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death\u2019: this is a regret. An unlearned ordinary person doesn\u2019t understand regrets, their origin, their cessation, or the practice that leads to their cessation. And so their regrets grow. They\u2019re not freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not freed from suffering, I say. A learned noble disciple does understand regrets, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. And so their regrets cease. They\u2019re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re freed from suffering, I say. Knowing and seeing this, a learned noble disciple does not answer: \u2018A realized one still exists after death\u2019 \u2026 \u2018A realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death.\u2019 Knowing and seeing this, a learned noble disciple does not declare the undeclared points. Knowing and seeing this, a learned noble disciple doesn\u2019t shake, tremble, quake, or get nervous regarding the undeclared points. This is the cause, this is the reason why a learned noble disciple has no doubts regarding the undeclared points.\u201d","title":"The Undeclared Points","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":551}