{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn50.1-12/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn50.1-12","id":"suttacentral_sn50.1-12","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn50.1-12/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five powers. What five? The powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom. These are the five powers. The Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. And how does a mendicant who develops the five powers slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment? It\u2019s when a mendicant develops the powers 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 who develops and cultivates the five powers 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":"Sloping East, Etc.","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":136}