{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.74/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.74","id":"suttacentral_sn35.74","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.74/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, and said to him, \u201cSir, in such-and-such monastery there\u2019s a mendicant who is junior and not well-known. He\u2019s sick, suffering, gravely ill. Please go to him out of sympathy.\u201d When the Buddha heard that the mendicant was junior and ill, understanding that he was not well-known, he went to him. That mendicant saw the Buddha coming off in the distance and stirred in his cot. The Buddha said to that monk, \u201cIt\u2019s all right, mendicant, don\u2019t get up. There are some seats spread out, I will sit there.\u201d He sat down on the seat spread out and said to the mendicant, \u201cI hope you\u2019re keeping well, mendicant, I hope you\u2019re all right. I hope your pain is fading, not growing; that its fading is evident, not its growing.\u201d \u201cSir, I\u2019m not keeping well, I\u2019m not getting by. My pain is terrible and growing, not fading; its growing is evident, not its fading.\u201d \u201cI hope you don\u2019t have any remorse or regret?\u201d \u201cIndeed, sir, I have no little remorse and regret.\u201d \u201cI hope you have no reason to blame yourself when it comes to ethical conduct?\u201d \u201cNo sir, I have no reason to blame myself when it comes to ethical conduct.\u201d \u201cIn that case, mendicant, why do you have remorse and regret?\u201d \u201cBecause I understand that the Buddha has not taught the Dhamma merely for the sake of ethical purity.\u201d \u201cIf that is so, what then do you understand to be the purpose of teaching the Dhamma?\u201d \u201cI understand that the Buddha has taught the Dhamma for the purpose of the fading away of greed.\u201d \u201cGood, good, mendicant! It\u2019s good that you understand that I\u2019ve taught the Dhamma for the purpose of the fading away of greed. For that is indeed the purpose. What do you think, mendicant? Is the eye permanent or impermanent?\u201d \u201cImpermanent, sir.\u201d \u2026 \u201cIs the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind permanent or impermanent?\u201d \u201cImpermanent, sir.\u201d \u201cBut if it\u2019s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness?\u201d \u201cSuffering, sir.\u201d \u201cBut if it\u2019s impermanent, suffering, and perishable, is it fit to be regarded thus: \u2018This is mine, I am this, this is my self\u2019?\u201d \u201cNo, sir.\u201d \u201cSeeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they\u2019re freed. When they\u2019re freed, they know they\u2019re freed. They understand: \u2018Rebirth is ended \u2026 there is nothing further for this place.\u2019\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, that mendicant approved what the Buddha said. And while this discourse was being spoken, the stainless, immaculate vision of the Dhamma arose in that mendicant: \u201cEverything that is liable to arise is liable to cease.\u201d","title":"Sick (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":459}