{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an9.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an9.7","id":"suttacentral_an9.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.7/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain. Then the wanderer Sutav\u0101 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: \u201cSir, this one time the Buddha was staying right here in R\u0101jagaha, the Mountainfold. There I heard and learned this in the presence of the Buddha: \u2018A mendicant who is perfected\u2014with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart\u2019s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment\u2014can\u2019t transgress in five respects. A mendicant with defilements ended can\u2019t deliberately take the life of a living creature, take something with the intention to steal, have sex, tell a deliberate lie, or store up goods for their own enjoyment like they used to as a lay person.\u2019 I trust I properly heard, learned, applied the mind, and remembered that from the Buddha?\u201d \u201cIndeed, Sutav\u0101, you properly heard, learned, applied the mind, and remembered that. In the past, as today, I say this: \u2018A mendicant who is perfected\u2014with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart\u2019s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment\u2014can\u2019t transgress in nine respects. A mendicant with defilements ended can\u2019t deliberately take the life of a living creature, take something with the intention to steal, have sex, tell a deliberate lie, or store up goods for their own enjoyment like they used to as a lay person. And they can\u2019t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, or cowardice.\u2019 In the past, as today, I say this: \u2018A mendicant who is perfected\u2014with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart\u2019s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment\u2014can\u2019t transgress in these nine respects.\u2019\u201d","title":"With Sutav\u0101 the Wanderer","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":347}