{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.229/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.229","id":"suttacentral_sn35.229","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.229/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. There are sights known by the eye, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. This is called the ocean in the training of the Noble One. And it\u2019s here that this world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans\u2014is for the most part sunk. It\u2019s become tangled like string, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, and it doesn\u2019t escape the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration. There are sounds \u2026 smells \u2026 tastes \u2026 touches \u2026 ideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. This is called the ocean in the training of the Noble One. And it\u2019s here that this world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans\u2014is for the most part sunk. It\u2019s become tangled like string, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, and it doesn\u2019t escape the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration. Those in whom greed, hate, and ignorance have faded away; have crossed the ocean so hard to cross, with its saltwater crocodiles and monsters, <j>its waves and dangers. They\u2019ve slipped their chains, given up death, and have no attachments. They\u2019ve given up suffering, <j>so there are no more future lives. They\u2019ve disappeared, and cannot be measured; and they\u2019ve confounded the King of Death, I say.\u201d","title":"The Ocean (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":276}