{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.228/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.228","id":"suttacentral_sn35.228","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.228/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, an unlearned ordinary person speaks of the ocean. But that\u2019s not the ocean in the training of the Noble One. That\u2019s just a large body of water, a large sea of water. For a person, the eye is an ocean, and its currents are made of sights. Someone who can prevail over those currents is said to have crossed over the ocean of the eye, with its waves and whirlpools, its saltwater crocodiles and monsters. Crossed over, gone to the far shore, the brahmin stands on solid ground. For a person, the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind is an ocean, and its currents are made of ideas. Someone who can prevail over those currents is said to have crossed over the ocean of the mind, with its waves and whirlpools, its saltwater crocodiles and monsters. Crossed over, gone to the far shore, the brahmin stands on solid ground.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cA knowledge master who\u2019s crossed <j>the ocean so hard to cross, with its saltwater crocodiles and monsters, <j>its waves, whirlpools, and dangers; they\u2019ve completed the spiritual journey and gone to the end of the world, they\u2019re called \u2018one who has gone beyond\u2019.\u201d","title":"The Ocean (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":211}