{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti92/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti92","id":"suttacentral_iti92","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti92/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, suppose a mendicant were to hold the corner of my cloak and follow behind me step by step. Yet they covet sensual pleasures; they\u2019re infatuated, full of ill will and malicious intent. They are unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties. Then they are far from me, and I from them. Why is that? Because that mendicant does not see the teaching. Not seeing the teaching, they do not see me. Suppose a mendicant were to live a hundred leagues away. Yet they do not covet sensual pleasures; they\u2019re not infatuated, or full of ill will and malicious intent. They have established mindfulness, situational awareness and immersion, with unified mind and restrained faculties. Then they are close to me, and I to them. Why is that? Because that mendicant sees the teaching. Seeing the teaching, they see me.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cOne full of desire and distress may follow close behind, yet see how distant they are\u2014 the stirred from the still, the burning from the quenched, the greedy from the greedless. An astute person who has understood and directly known the teaching, grows calm, as unperturbed as a lake free of wind. See how close they are\u2014 the still to the still, the quenched to the quenched, the greedless to the greedless.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"The Corner of the Cloak","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":257}