{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn4.19/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn4.19","id":"suttacentral_sn4.19","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.19/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Now at that time the Buddha was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants with a Dhamma talk about extinguishment. And those mendicants were paying attention, applying the mind, concentrating wholeheartedly, and actively listening. Then M\u0101ra thought, \u201cThe ascetic Gotama is giving a Dhamma talk about extinguishment \u2026 and the mendicants are listening well. Why don\u2019t I go and pull the wool over their eyes?\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked manifested in the form of a farmer carrying a large plough on his shoulder. He held a long goad, his hair was messy, he was clad in sunn hemp, and his feet were muddy. He went up to the Buddha and said to him, \u201cSo, ascetic, did you happen to see any oxen?\u201d \u201cBut what have you to do with oxen, Wicked One?\u201d \u201cMine alone, ascetic, is the eye, mine are sights, mine is the field of eye contact consciousness. Where can you escape me, ascetic? Mine alone is the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind, mine are ideas, mine is the field of mind contact consciousness. Where can you escape me, ascetic?\u201d \u201cYours alone, Wicked One, is the eye, yours are sights, yours is the field of eye contact consciousness. Where there is no eye, no sights, no eye contact consciousness\u2014you have no place there, Wicked One! Yours alone is the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind, yours are ideas, yours is the field of mind contact consciousness. Where there is no mind, no ideas, no mind contact consciousness\u2014you have no place there, Wicked One!\u201d \u201cThe things they call \u2018mine\u2019, and those who say \u2018it\u2019s mine\u2019: if your mind remains there, you won\u2019t escape me, ascetic!\u201d \u201cThe things they speak of aren\u2019t mine; I\u2019m not someone who speaks like that. So know this, Wicked One: you won\u2019t even see the path I take.\u201d Then M\u0101ra \u2026 vanished right there.","title":"A Farmer","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":318}