{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn21.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn21.6","id":"suttacentral_sn21.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.6/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf went to the Buddha. The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance, and addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, do you see this monk coming\u2014ugly, unsightly, deformed, and despised by the mendicants?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cThat mendicant is very mighty and powerful. It\u2019s not easy to find an attainment that he has not already attained. And he has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cGeese, herons, and peacocks, elephants and spotted deer\u2014 though their bodies are not equal, they all fear the lion. So it is for humans\u2014 if a little person is wise, they\u2019re the truly great one, not the fool with a good body.\u201d","title":"With Bhaddiya the Dwarf","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":155}