{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.69/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.69","id":"suttacentral_sn35.69","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.69/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the venerables S\u0101riputta and Upasena were staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Cool Grove, under the Cobra\u2019s Hood Grotto. Now at that time a viper fell on Upasena\u2019s body. He addressed the mendicants, \u201cCome, reverends, lift this body onto a cot and carry it outside before it\u2019s scattered right here like a handful of hay.\u201d When he said this, S\u0101riputta said to him, \u201cBut we don\u2019t see any impairment in your body or deterioration of your faculties. Yet you say: \u2018Come, reverends, lift this body onto a cot and carry it outside before it\u2019s scattered right here like a handful of hay.\u2019\u201d \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, there may be an impairment in body or deterioration of faculties for someone who thinks: \u2018I am the eye\u2019 or \u2018the eye is mine.\u2019 Or \u2018I am the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026\u2019 Or \u2018I am the mind\u2019 or \u2018the mind is mine.\u2019 But I don\u2019t think like that. So why would there be an impairment in my body or deterioration of my faculties?\u201d \u201cThat must be because Venerable Upasena has long ago totally eradicated I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit. That\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t occur to you: \u2018I am the eye\u2019 or \u2018the eye is mine.\u2019 Or \u2018I am the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026\u2019 Or \u2018I am the mind\u2019 or \u2018the mind is mine.\u2019\u201d Then those mendicants lifted Upasena\u2019s body onto a cot and carried it outside. And his body was scattered right there like a handful of hay.","title":"Upasena and the Viper","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":255}