{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn1.35/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn1.35","id":"suttacentral_sn1.35","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.35/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then, late at night, several glorious deities of the host of the fault-finders, lighting up the entire Jeta\u2019s Grove, went up to the Buddha, and stood in the air. Standing in the air, one deity spoke this verse in the Buddha\u2019s presence: \u201cSomeone who pretends to be other than they really are, is like a cheating gambler who enjoys what was gained by theft. You should only say what you would do; you shouldn\u2019t say what you wouldn\u2019t do. The wise will recognize one who talks without doing.\u201d \u201cNot just by speaking, nor solely by listening, are you able to progress on this hard path, by which the attentive practicing absorption are released from M\u0101ra\u2019s bonds. The attentive certainly don\u2019t act like that, for they understand the way of the world. The attentive are quenched by understanding, they\u2019ve crossed over clinging to the world.\u201d Then those deities landed on the ground, bowed with their heads to the Buddha\u2019s feet and said, \u201cWe made a mistake, sir. It was foolish, stupid, and unskillful of us to presume to attack the Buddha! Please, sir, accept our mistake for what it is, so we will restrain ourselves in future.\u201d At that, the Buddha smiled. Then those deities, becoming even more fault-finding, flew up in the air. One deity spoke this verse in the Buddha\u2019s presence: \u201cIf you don\u2019t give your pardon when a mistake is confessed, with hidden anger and heavy hate, you\u2019re stuck in your enmity.\u201d \u201cSuppose no mistake were found, and no one here had gone astray: if enmities were not settled, how could that be skillful?\u201d \u201cWho makes no mistakes? Who doesn\u2019t go astray? Who doesn\u2019t fall into confusion? Who is attentive, ever mindful?\u201d \u201cThe Realized One, the Buddha, sympathetic for all beings: that\u2019s who makes no mistakes, and that\u2019s who doesn\u2019t go astray. He doesn\u2019t fall into confusion, for he\u2019s attentive, ever mindful. If you don\u2019t give your pardon when a mistake is confessed, with hidden anger and heavy hate, you\u2019re stuck in your enmity. I don\u2019t approve of such enmity, and so I pardon your mistake.\u201d","title":"Fault-Finding Deities","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":362}