{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn55.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn55.3","id":"suttacentral_sn55.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Now at that time the lay follower D\u012bgh\u0101vu was sick, suffering, gravely ill. Then he addressed his father, the householder Jotika, \u201cPlease, householder, go to the Buddha, and in my name bow with your head to his feet. Say to him: \u2018Sir, the lay follower D\u012bgh\u0101vu is sick, suffering, gravely ill. He bows with his head to your feet.\u2019 And then say: \u2018Sir, please visit him at his home out of sympathy.\u2019\u201d \u201cYes, dear,\u201d replied Jotika. He did as D\u012bgh\u0101vu asked. The Buddha consented with silence. Then the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to the home of the lay follower D\u012bgh\u0101vu, sat down on the seat spread out, and said to him, \u201cI hope you\u2019re keeping well, D\u012bgh\u0101vu, I hope you\u2019re all right. I hope your pain is fading, not growing; that its fading is evident, not its growing.\u201d \u201cSir, I\u2019m not keeping well, I\u2019m not getting by. My pain is terrible and growing, not fading; its growing is evident, not its fading.\u201d \u201cSo, D\u012bgh\u0101vu, you should train like this: \u2018I will have experiential confidence in the Buddha \u2026 the teaching \u2026 the Sa\u1e45gha \u2026 And I will have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones \u2026 leading to immersion.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train.\u201d \u201cSir, these four factors of stream-entry that were taught by the Buddha are found in me, and I exhibit them. For I have experiential confidence in the Buddha \u2026 the teaching \u2026 the Sa\u1e45gha \u2026 And I have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones \u2026 leading to immersion.\u201d \u201cIn that case, D\u012bgh\u0101vu, grounded on these four factors of stream-entry you should further develop these six things that play a part in realization. You should meditate observing the impermanence of all conditions, perceiving suffering in impermanence, perceiving not-self in suffering, perceiving giving up, perceiving fading away, and perceiving cessation. That\u2019s how you should train.\u201d \u201cThese six things that play a part in realization that were taught by the Buddha are found in me, and I exhibit them. For I meditate observing the impermanence of all conditions, perceiving suffering in impermanence, perceiving not-self in suffering, perceiving giving up, perceiving fading away, and perceiving cessation. But still, sir, I think, \u2018I hope Jotika doesn\u2019t suffer distress when I\u2019ve gone.\u2019\u201d Jotika said, \u201cDear D\u012bgh\u0101vu, don\u2019t focus on that. Come on, dear D\u012bgh\u0101vu, you should closely focus on what the Buddha is saying.\u201d When the Buddha had given this advice he rose from his seat and left. Not long after the Buddha left, D\u012bgh\u0101vu passed away. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, the lay follower named D\u012bgh\u0101vu, who was advised in brief by the Buddha, has passed away. Where has he been reborn in his next life?\u201d \u201cMendicants, the lay follower D\u012bgh\u0101vu was astute. He practiced in line with the teaching, and did not trouble me about the teachings. With the ending of the five lower fetters, he\u2019s been reborn spontaneously, and will become extinguished there, not liable to return from that world.\u201d","title":"With D\u012bgh\u0101vu","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":534}