{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn10.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn10.7","id":"suttacentral_sn10.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn10.7/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. Now at that time the Buddha was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants with a Dhamma talk about extinguishment. And those mendicants were paying attention, applying the mind, concentrating wholeheartedly, and actively listening. Then the native spirit Punabbasu\u2019s Mother soothed her little children, saying: \u201cHush, little Uttar\u0101! Hush, Punabbasu! For I want to listen to the teaching of the Teacher, the supreme Buddha. Extinguishment, the Blessed One said, is the release from all ties. I have a lasting love for this teaching. In this world, your own child is dear; in this world, your own husband is dear; but even greater than that is my love for this teaching\u2019s quest. For neither son nor husband, dear as they are, can free you from suffering; as listening to the true teaching frees living creatures from suffering. In this world mired in suffering, fettered by old age and death, I want to listen to the teaching through which the Buddha awakened, which frees you from old age and death. So hush, Punabbasu!\u201d \u201cMom, I\u2019m not speaking, and Uttar\u0101 is silent, too. Focus just on the teaching, for it\u2019s nice to listen to the true teaching. And it\u2019s because we haven\u2019t understood the teaching that we live in suffering, Mom. He is a beacon for those who are lost among gods and humans. The Buddha, bearing his final body, the Clear-eyed One teaches Dhamma.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s good that my child\u2019s so astute, this child I bore and suckled! My child loves the pure teaching of the supreme Buddha. Punabbasu, may you be happy! Today, I rise. Hear me too, Uttar\u0101: I have seen the noble truths!\u201d","title":"With Punabbasu","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":288}