{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.123/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.123","id":"suttacentral_sn22.123","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.123/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable S\u0101riputta and Venerable Mah\u0101ko\u1e6d\u1e6dhita were staying near Varanasi in the deer park at Isipatana. Then in the late afternoon, Venerable Mah\u0101ko\u1e6d\u1e6dhita came out of retreat, went to Venerable S\u0101riputta, bowed, sat down to one side, and said: \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, what things should a learned mendicant rationally apply the mind to?\u201d \u201cA learned mendicant should rationally apply the mind to these five grasping aggregates as impermanent \u2026 as not-self. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. A learned mendicant should rationally apply the mind to these five grasping aggregates as impermanent \u2026 as not-self. It\u2019s possible that a learned mendicant who rationally applies the mind to the five grasping aggregates will realize the fruit of stream-entry.\u201d \u201cBut Reverend S\u0101riputta, what things should a mendicant stream-enterer rationally apply the mind to?\u201d \u201cA mendicant stream-enterer should also rationally apply the mind to these five grasping aggregates as impermanent \u2026 as not-self. It\u2019s possible that a mendicant stream-enterer who rationally applies the mind to the five grasping aggregates will realize the fruit of once-return.\u201d \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s possible that a mendicant once-returner who rationally applies the mind to the five grasping aggregates will realize the fruit of non-return.\u201d \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s possible that a mendicant non-returner who rationally applies the mind to the five grasping aggregates will realize the fruit of perfection.\u201d \u201cBut Reverend S\u0101riputta, what things should a perfected one rationally apply the mind to?\u201d \u201cReverend Ko\u1e6d\u1e6dhita, a perfected one should rationally apply the mind to the five grasping aggregates as impermanent, as suffering, as diseased, as a boil, as a dart, as gloom, as an affliction, as alien, as breaking apart, as empty, as not-self. A perfected one has nothing more to do, and nothing that needs improvement. Still, these things, when developed and cultivated, lead to blissful meditation in this life, and also to mindfulness and situational awareness.\u201d","title":"Learned","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":316}