{"collection":"Majjhima Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_mn132/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_mn132","id":"suttacentral_mn132","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/mn132/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Majjhima Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time Venerable \u0100nanda was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk on the topic of the summary recital and the analysis of the one who has one fine night. Then in the late afternoon, the Buddha came out of retreat, went to the assembly hall, where he sat down on the seat spread out, and addressed the mendicants: \u201cWho was inspiring the mendicants with a talk on the summary recital and the analysis of the one who has one fine night?\u201d \u201cIt was Venerable \u0100nanda, sir.\u201d Then the Buddha said to Venerable \u0100nanda, \u201cBut in what way were you inspiring the mendicants with a talk on the summary recital and the analysis of the one who has one fine night?\u201d \u201cI was doing so in this way, sir,\u201d replied \u0100nanda. \u201cDon\u2019t run back to the past, don\u2019t anticipate the future. What\u2019s past is left behind, the future has not arrived; and any present phenomenon you clearly discern in every case. The unfaltering, the unshakable: having known that, foster it. Today\u2019s the day to keenly work\u2014 who knows, tomorrow may bring death! For there is no bargain to be struck with Death and his mighty horde. One who keenly meditates like this, tireless all night and day: that\u2019s who has one fine night\u2014 so declares the peaceful sage. And how do you run back to the past? \u2026 And how do you not run back to the past? \u2026 And how do you anticipate the future? \u2026 And how do you not anticipate the future? \u2026 And how do you falter amid presently arisen phenomena? \u2026 And how do you not falter amid presently arisen phenomena? \u2026 That\u2019s how you don\u2019t falter amid presently arisen phenomena. \u2018Don\u2019t run back to the past, don\u2019t anticipate the future. \u2026 that\u2019s who has one fine night\u2014 so declares the peaceful sage.\u2019 That\u2019s how I was inspiring the mendicants with a talk on the summary recital and the analysis of the one who has one fine night.\u201d \u201cGood, good, \u0100nanda. It\u2019s good that you were inspiring the mendicants with a talk on the summary recital and the analysis of the one who has one fine night.\u201d And the Buddha repeated the verses and analysis once more. That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, Venerable \u0100nanda approved what the Buddha said.","title":"\u0100nanda and One Fine Night","tradition":"Majjhima Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":415}