{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.53/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.53","id":"suttacentral_sn48.53","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.53/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Kosamb\u012b in Ghosita\u2019s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, is there a way that a mendicant who is a trainee, standing at the level of a trainee, can understand that they are a trainee? And that a mendicant who is an adept, standing at the level of an adept, can understand that they are an adept?\u201d \u201cOur teachings are rooted in the Buddha. \u2026\u201d \u201cThere is a way that a mendicant who is a trainee, standing at the level of a trainee, can understand that they are a trainee, and that a mendicant who is an adept, standing at the level of an adept, can understand that they are an adept. And what is a way that a mendicant who is a trainee can understand that they are a trainee? It\u2019s when a mendicant who is a trainee truly understands: \u2018This is suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the origin of suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the cessation of suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering\u2019. This is a way that a mendicant who is a trainee can understand that they are a trainee. Furthermore, a mendicant who is a trainee reflects: \u2018Is there any other ascetic or brahmin elsewhere whose teaching is as true, as real, as accurate as that of the Buddha?\u2019 They understand: \u2018There is no other ascetic or brahmin elsewhere whose teaching is as true, as real, as accurate as that of the Buddha.\u2019 This too is a way that a mendicant who is a trainee can understand that they are a trainee. Furthermore, a mendicant who is a trainee understands the five faculties: faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom. And although they don\u2019t have direct meditative experience of their destination, apex, fruit, and culmination, they do see them with penetrating wisdom. This too is a way that a mendicant who is a trainee can understand that they are a trainee. And what is the way that a mendicant who is an adept can understand that they are an adept? It\u2019s when a mendicant who is an adept understands the five faculties: faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom. They have direct meditative experience of their destination, apex, fruit, and culmination, and they see them with penetrating wisdom. This is a way that a mendicant who is an adept can understand that they are an adept. Furthermore, a mendicant who is an adept understands the six faculties: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. They understand: \u2018These six faculties will totally and utterly cease without remainder. And no other six faculties will arise anywhere anyhow.\u2019 This too is a way that a mendicant who is an adept can understand that they are an adept.\u201d","title":"A Trainee","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":464}