{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.154/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.154","id":"suttacentral_sn35.154","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.154/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha \u2026 and asked him, \u201cSir, they speak of someone who is \u2018accomplished in the faculties\u2019. How is someone accomplished in the faculties defined?\u201d \u201cMendicant, if someone meditates observing rise and fall in the eye faculty, they grow disillusioned with the eye faculty. If they meditate observing rise and fall in the ear faculty \u2026 nose faculty \u2026 tongue faculty \u2026 body faculty \u2026 mind faculty, they grow disillusioned with the mind faculty. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. \u2026 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 This is how someone who is accomplished in the faculties is defined.\u201d","title":"Endowed With Faculties","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":131}