{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti73/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti73","id":"suttacentral_iti73","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti73/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, formless states are more peaceful than states of form; cessation is more peaceful than formless states.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cThere are beings in the realm of luminous form, and others stuck in the formless. Not understanding cessation, they return in future lives. But the people who completely understand form, not stuck in the formless, released in cessation\u2014 they are conquerors of death. Having directly experienced <j>the element free of death, free of attachments; having realized relinquishment of attachments, the undefiled fully awakened Buddha teaches the sorrowless, stainless state.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"More Peaceful","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":127}