{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti103/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti103","id":"suttacentral_iti103","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti103/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t truly understand about suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path. I don\u2019t deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don\u2019t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don\u2019t live having realized it with their own insight in this very life. There are ascetics and brahmins who truly understand about suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path. I regard them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cThere are those who don\u2019t understand suffering and suffering\u2019s cause, and where all suffering cease with no residue left behind. And they do not know the path that leads to the stilling of suffering. They lack the heart\u2019s release, as well as the release by wisdom. Unable to make an end, they continue to be reborn and grow old. But there are those who understand suffering and suffering\u2019s cause, and where all suffering cease with no residue left behind. And they understand the path that leads to the stilling of suffering. They\u2019re endowed with the heart\u2019s release, as well as the release by wisdom. Able to make an end, they don\u2019t continue to be reborn and grow old.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Ascetics and Brahmins","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":260}