{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.76/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.76","id":"suttacentral_sn22.76","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.76/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, form is impermanent. What\u2019s impermanent is suffering. What\u2019s suffering is not-self. And what\u2019s not-self should be truly seen with right understanding like this: \u2018This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.\u2019 Feeling \u2026 Perception \u2026 Choices \u2026 Consciousness is impermanent. What\u2019s impermanent is suffering. What\u2019s suffering is not-self. And what\u2019s not-self should be truly seen with right understanding like this: \u2018This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.\u2019 Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they\u2019re freed. When they\u2019re freed, they know they\u2019re freed. They understand: \u2018Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further for this place.\u2019 As far as there are abodes of sentient beings, even up until the pinnacle of existence, the perfected ones are the foremost and the best.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cOh! How happy are the perfected ones! Craving is not found in them, the conceit \u2018I am\u2019 is cut off, and the net of delusion is shattered. They\u2019ve attained imperturbability, their minds are unclouded, nothing in the world clings to them, manifesting divinity, undefiled. Completely understanding the five aggregates, their domain is the seven good qualities. Those true persons are praiseworthy, the Buddha\u2019s bosom sons. Endowed with the seven gems, and trained in the three trainings, the great heroes live on, with fear and dread given up. Endowed with ten factors, those giants are immersed in sam\u0101dhi. They are the best in the world, craving is not found in them. The adept\u2019s knowledge has arisen: \u2018This bag of bones is my last.\u2019 They are independent of others in the core of the spiritual path. They do not waver due to the discriminations, they\u2019re freed from future lives. They\u2019ve reached the level of the tamed, in the world, they\u2019re the winners. Above, below, all round, relishing is not found in them. They roar their lion\u2019s roar: \u2018The awakened are supreme in the world!\u2019\u201d","title":"The Perfected Ones","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":363}