{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.99/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.99","id":"suttacentral_sn22.99","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.99/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. There comes a time when the ocean dries up and evaporates and is no more. But in any case, there is no making an end of suffering for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving, I say. There comes a time when Sineru the king of mountains is burned up and destroyed, and is no more. But in any case, there is no making an end of suffering for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving, I say. There comes a time when the great earth is burned up and destroyed, and is no more. But in any case, there is no making an end of suffering for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving, I say. Suppose a hound on a leash was tethered to a strong post or pillar. It would just keep running and circling around that post or pillar. In the same way, take an unlearned ordinary person who has not seen the noble ones, and is neither skilled nor trained in their teaching. They\u2019ve not seen true persons, and are neither skilled nor trained in their teaching. They regard form \u2026 feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 consciousness as self, self as having consciousness, consciousness in self, or self in consciousness. They just keep running and circling around form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. Doing so, they\u2019re not freed from form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. They\u2019re not freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not freed from suffering, I say. A learned noble disciple has seen the noble ones, and is skilled and trained in the teaching of the noble ones. They\u2019ve seen true persons, and are skilled and trained in the teaching of the true persons. They don\u2019t regard form \u2026 feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 or consciousness as self, self as having consciousness, consciousness in self, or self in consciousness. They don\u2019t keep running and circling around form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. By not doing so, they\u2019re freed from form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. They\u2019re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re freed from suffering, I say.\u201d","title":"A Leash","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":406}