{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn15.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn15.10","id":"suttacentral_sn15.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn15.10/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. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. \u2026 One individual roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost. Why is that? This transmigration has no known beginning. \u2026 This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cIf the bones of a single individual for a single eon were gathered up, they\u2019d make a pile the size of a mountain: so said the great seer. And this is declared to be as big as Mount Vepulla, higher than the Vulture\u2019s Peak in the Mountainfold of the Magadhans. But then, with right understanding, one sees the noble truths\u2014 suffering, suffering\u2019s origin, suffering\u2019s transcendence, and the noble eightfold path that leads to the stilling of suffering. After roaming on seven times at most, that individual makes an end of suffering, with the ending of all fetters.\u201d","title":"A Single Individual","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":203}