{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti29/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti29","id":"suttacentral_iti29","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti29/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, when a mendicant has two qualities they live happily in this very life\u2014without distress, anguish, and fever\u2014 and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth. What two? Guarding the sense doors and moderation in eating. When a mendicant possesses these two qualities they live happily in this very life\u2014without distress, anguish, and fever\u2014 and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cEye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and likewise mind: a mendicant who makes these sense doors well guarded\u2014 eating in moderation, restrained in the sense faculties\u2014 reaps happiness both physical and mental. Not burning in body, not burning in mind, by day or by night such a person lives in happiness.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Living in Happiness","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":165}