{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn16.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn16.10","id":"suttacentral_sn16.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn16.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time Venerable Mah\u0101kassapa was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then Venerable \u0100nanda robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to Mah\u0101kassapa and said, \u201cCome, Honorable Kassapa. Let\u2019s go to one of the nuns\u2019 quarters.\u201d \u201cYou go, Reverend \u0100nanda. You\u2019re the one with many duties and responsibilities.\u201d And a second time \u2026 And a third time, \u0100nanda said, \u201cCome, Honorable Kassapa. Let\u2019s go to one of the nuns\u2019 quarters.\u201d Then Venerable Mah\u0101kassapa robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went with Venerable \u0100nanda as his second monk to one of the nuns\u2019 quarters, where he sat down on the seat spread out. And then several nuns went up to Mah\u0101kassapa, bowed, and sat down to one side. Mah\u0101kassapa educated, encouraged, fired up, and inspired those nuns with a Dhamma talk, after which he rose from his seat and left. But the nun Thullatiss\u0101 was upset and blurted out, \u201cWhat is the venerable Mah\u0101kassapa thinking, that he\u2019d teach Dhamma in front of the venerable \u0100nanda, the Videhan sage? He\u2019s like a needle peddler who thinks they can sell a needle to a needle maker!\u201d Mah\u0101kassapa heard Thullatiss\u0101 say these words, and he said to \u0100nanda, \u201cIs that right, Reverend \u0100nanda? Am I the needle peddler and you the needle maker? Or am I the needle maker and you the needle peddler?\u201d \u201cForgive her, sir. The lady\u2019s a fool.\u201d \u201cHold on, Reverend \u0100nanda! Don\u2019t make the Sa\u1e45gha investigate you further! What do you think, Reverend \u0100nanda? Was it you who the Buddha brought up before the Sa\u1e45gha of mendicants, saying: \u2018Mendicants, whenever I want, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, I enter and remain in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. And so does \u0100nanda\u2019?\u201d \u201cNo, sir.\u201d \u201cI was the one the Buddha brought up before the Sa\u1e45gha of mendicants, saying: \u2018Mendicants, whenever I want, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, I enter and remain in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. And so does Kassapa. \u2026\u2019 (The nine progressive meditations and the five insights should be told in full.) What do you think, Reverend \u0100nanda? Was it you who the Buddha brought up before the Sa\u1e45gha of mendicants, saying: \u2018I have realized the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And I live having realized it with my own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. And so does \u0100nanda\u2019?\u201d \u201cNo, sir.\u201d \u201cI was the one the Buddha brought up before the Sa\u1e45gha of mendicants, saying: \u2018I have realized the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And I live having realized it with my own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. And so does Kassapa.\u2019 Reverend, you might as well think to hide a bull elephant that\u2019s three or three and a half meters tall behind a palm leaf as to hide my six insights.\u201d But the nun Thullatiss\u0101 fell from the spiritual life.","title":"The Nuns\u2019 Quarters","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":536}