{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.65/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.65","id":"suttacentral_sn35.65","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.65/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Then Venerable Samiddhi went up to the Buddha \u2026 and said to him: \u201cSir, they speak of this thing called \u2018M\u0101ra\u2019. How do we define M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra?\u201d \u201cSamiddhi, where there is the eye, sights, eye consciousness, and things knowable by eye consciousness, there is M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is the ear, sounds, ear consciousness, and things knowable by ear consciousness, there is M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is the nose, smells, nose consciousness, and things knowable by nose consciousness, there is M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is the tongue, tastes, tongue consciousness, and things knowable by tongue consciousness, there is M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is the body, touches, body consciousness, and things knowable by body consciousness, there is M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is the mind, ideas, mind consciousness, and things knowable by mind consciousness, there is M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is no eye, no sights, no eye consciousness, and no things knowable by eye consciousness, there is no M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra. Where there is no ear \u2026 no nose \u2026 no tongue \u2026 no body \u2026 Where there is no mind, no ideas, no mind consciousness, and no things knowable by mind consciousness, there is no M\u0101ra or what is known as M\u0101ra.\u201d","title":"Samiddhi\u2019s Question About M\u0101ra","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":257}