{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn14.15/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn14.15","id":"suttacentral_sn14.15","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn14.15/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain. Now at that time Venerable S\u0101riputta was walking together with several mendicants not far from the Buddha. Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na was doing likewise, as were Venerable Mah\u0101kassapa, Venerable Anuruddha, Venerable Pu\u1e47\u1e47a son of Mant\u0101\u1e47\u012b, Venerable Up\u0101li, Venerable \u0100nanda, and Devadatta. Then the Buddha said to the mendicants, \u201cMendicants, do you see S\u0101riputta walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants have great wisdom. Do you see Moggall\u0101na walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants have great psychic power. Do you see Kassapa walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants advocate austerities. Do you see Anuruddha walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants have clairvoyance. Do you see Pu\u1e47\u1e47a son of Mant\u0101\u1e47\u012b walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants are Dhamma speakers. Do you see Up\u0101li walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants are experts in monastic law. Do you see \u0100nanda walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants are very learned. Do you see Devadatta walking together with several mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cAll of those mendicants have corrupt wishes. Sentient beings join together and converge because of an element. Those who have inferior convictions join together and converge with those who have inferior convictions. Those who have good convictions join together and converge with those who have good convictions. In the past, in the future, and also in the present, sentient beings join together and converge because of an element. Those who have inferior convictions join together and converge with those who have inferior convictions. Those who have good convictions join together and converge with those who have good convictions.\u201d","title":"Walking Together","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":300}