{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.71-82/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.71-82","id":"suttacentral_sn48.71-82","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.71-82/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. How so? It\u2019s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. That\u2019s how a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\u201d Six on slanting to the east, and six on slanting to the ocean; these two sixes make twelve, and that\u2019s how this chapter is recited.","title":"Slanting East, Etc.","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":99}