{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn39.16/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn39.16","id":"suttacentral_sn39.16","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn39.16/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, in this teaching and training, what is hard to do?\u201d \u201cGoing forth, reverend, is hard to do in this teaching and training.\u201d \u201cBut what\u2019s hard to do for someone who has gone forth?\u201d \u201cWhen you\u2019ve gone forth it\u2019s hard to be satisfied.\u201d \u201cBut what\u2019s hard to do for someone who is satisfied?\u201d \u201cWhen you\u2019re satisfied, it\u2019s hard to practice in line with the teaching.\u201d \u201cBut if a mendicant practices  in line with the teaching, will it take them long to become a perfected one?\u201d \u201cNot long, reverend.\u201d The Linked Discourses with S\u0101ma\u1e47\u1e0daka are complete.","title":"Hard to Do","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":96}