{"collection":"Majjhima Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_mn6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_mn6","id":"suttacentral_mn6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/mn6/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. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, live by the ethical precepts and the monastic code. Live restrained in the monastic code, conducting yourselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, keep the rules you\u2019ve undertaken. A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I be liked and approved by my spiritual companions, respected and admired.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts, be committed to inner serenity of the heart, not neglect absorption, be endowed with discernment, and frequent empty huts. A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts, be committed to inner serenity of the heart, not neglect absorption, be endowed with discernment, and frequent empty huts. A mendicant might wish: \u2018May the services of those whose robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick I enjoy be very fruitful and beneficial for them.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018When deceased family and relatives who have passed away recollect me with a confident mind, may this be very fruitful and beneficial for them.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I prevail over desire and discontent, and may desire and discontent not prevail over me. May I live having mastered desire and discontent whenever they arose.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I prevail over fear and dread, and may fear and dread not prevail over me. May I live having mastered fear and dread whenever they arose.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I get the four absorptions\u2014blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind\u2014when I want, without trouble or difficulty.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I have direct meditative experience of the peaceful liberations that are formless, transcending form.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I, with the ending of three fetters, become a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I, with the ending of three fetters, and the weakening of greed, hate, and delusion, become a once-returner, coming back to this world once only, then making an end of suffering.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I, with the ending of the five lower fetters, be reborn spontaneously and become extinguished there, not liable to return from that world.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I wield the many kinds of psychic power: multiplying myself and becoming one again; materializing and dematerializing; going unobstructed through a wall, a rampart, or a mountain as if through space; diving in and out of the earth as if it were water; walking on water as if it were earth; flying cross-legged through the sky like a bird; touching and stroking with the hand the sun and moon, so mighty and powerful; controlling the body as far as the realm of divinity.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018With clairaudience that is purified and superhuman, may I hear both kinds of sounds, human and heavenly, whether near or far.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I understand the minds of other beings and individuals, having encompassed them with my mind. May I understand mind with greed as \u201cmind with greed\u201d, and mind without greed as \u201cmind without greed\u201d; mind with hate as \u201cmind with hate\u201d, and mind without hate as \u201cmind without hate\u201d; mind with delusion as \u201cmind with delusion\u201d, and mind without delusion as \u201cmind without delusion\u201d; constricted mind as \u201cconstricted mind\u201d, and scattered mind as \u201cscattered mind\u201d; expansive mind as \u201cexpansive mind\u201d, and unexpansive mind as \u201cunexpansive mind\u201d; mind that is not supreme as \u201cmind that is not supreme\u201d, and mind that is supreme as \u201cmind that is supreme\u201d; mind immersed in sam\u0101dhi as \u201cmind immersed in sam\u0101dhi\u201d, and mind not immersed in sam\u0101dhi as \u201cmind not immersed in sam\u0101dhi\u201d; freed mind as \u201cfreed mind\u201d, and unfreed mind as \u201cunfreed mind\u201d.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I recollect many kinds of past lives. That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. May I remember: \u201cThere, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.\u201d May I thus recollect my many kinds of past lives, with features and details.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018With clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, may I see sentient beings passing away and being reborn\u2014inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place\u2014and understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds: \u201cThese dear beings did bad things by way of body, speech, and mind. They denounced the noble ones; they had wrong view; and they chose to act out of that wrong view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. These dear beings, however, did good things by way of body, speech, and mind. They never denounced the noble ones; they had right view; and they chose to act out of that right view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.\u201d And so, with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, may I see sentient beings passing away and being reborn\u2014inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. And may I understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts \u2026 A mendicant might wish: \u2018May I realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, and live having realized it with my own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u2019 So let them fulfill their precepts, be committed to inner serenity of the heart, not neglect absorption, be endowed with discernment, and frequent empty huts. \u2018Mendicants, live by the ethical precepts and the monastic code. Live restrained in the monastic code, conducting yourselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, keep the rules you\u2019ve undertaken.\u2019 That\u2019s what I said, and this is why I said it.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.","title":"One Might Wish","tradition":"Majjhima Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":1237}