{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn51.14/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn51.14","id":"suttacentral_sn51.14","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn51.14/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in the stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother in the Eastern Monastery. Now at that time several mendicants were staying beneath the longhouse. They were haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, loose-tongued, unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties. Then the Buddha addressed Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na, \u201cThese spiritual companions of yours staying beneath the longhouse are haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, loose-tongued, unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties. Go, Moggall\u0101na, and strike awe in those mendicants!\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d replied Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na. Then he used his psychic power to make the longhouse shake and rock and tremble with his big toe. Then those mendicants stood to one side, shocked and awestruck. \u201cOh lord, how incredible, how amazing! There\u2019s no wind at all; and this stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother has deep foundations. It\u2019s firmly embedded, imperturbable and unshakable. And yet it shakes and rocks and quivers!\u201d Then the Buddha went up to those mendicants and said: \u201cWhy do you, mendicants, stand to one side, shocked and awestruck?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s incredible, sir, it\u2019s amazing! There\u2019s no wind at all; and this stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother has deep foundations. It\u2019s firmly embedded, imperturbable and unshakable. And yet it shakes and rocks and quivers!\u201d \u201cWanting to strike awe in you, the mendicant Moggall\u0101na made the longhouse shake and rock and quiver with his big toe. What do you think, mendicants? What things has the mendicant Moggall\u0101na developed and cultivated so as to have such power and might?\u201d \u201cOur teachings are rooted in the Buddha. He is our guide and our refuge. Sir, may the Buddha himself please clarify the meaning of this. The mendicants will listen and remember it.\u201d \u201cWell then, mendicants, listen. The mendicant Moggall\u0101na has become so powerful and mighty by developing and cultivating the four bases of psychic power. What four? Moggall\u0101na develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm \u2026 energy \u2026 mental development \u2026 inquiry, and active effort. He thinks: \u2018My inquiry won\u2019t be too lax or too tense. And it\u2019ll be neither constricted internally nor scattered externally.\u2019 And he meditates perceiving before and behind: as before, so behind; as behind, so before; as below, so above; as above, so below; as by day, so by night; as by night, so by day. And so, with an open and unenveloped heart, he develops a mind that\u2019s full of radiance. The mendicant Moggall\u0101na has become so powerful and mighty by developing and cultivating these four bases of psychic power. And by developing and cultivating these four bases of psychic power, the mendicant Moggall\u0101na wields the many kinds of psychic power \u2026 controlling the body as far as the realm of divinity. \u2026 And by developing and cultivating these four bases of psychic power, the mendicant Moggall\u0101na realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And he lives having realized it with his own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u201d","title":"With Moggall\u0101na","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":508}