{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn55.53/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn55.53","id":"suttacentral_sn55.53","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.53/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Varanasi in the deer park at Isipatana. Then the lay follower Dhammadinna, together with five hundred lay followers, went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cMay the Buddha please advise and instruct us. It will be for our lasting welfare and happiness.\u201d \u201cSo, Dhammadinna, you should all train like this: \u2018From time to time we will undertake and dwell upon the discourses spoken by the Realized One that are deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train yourselves.\u201d \u201cSir, we live at home with our children, using sandalwood imported from K\u0101si, wearing garlands, fragrance, and makeup, and accepting gold and currency. It\u2019s not easy for us to undertake and dwell from time to time upon the discourses spoken by the Realized One that are deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness. Since we are established in the five training rules, please teach us further.\u201d \u201cSo, Dhammadinna, you should all train like this: \u2018We will have experiential confidence in the Buddha \u2026 the teaching \u2026 the Sa\u1e45gha \u2026 And we will have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones \u2026 leading to immersion.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train yourselves.\u201d \u201cSir, these four factors of stream-entry that were taught by the Buddha are found in us, and we embody them. For we have experiential confidence in the Buddha \u2026 the teaching \u2026 the Sa\u1e45gha \u2026 And we have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones \u2026 leading to immersion.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re all fortunate, Dhammadinna, so very fortunate! You\u2019ve all declared the fruit of stream-entry.\u201d","title":"With Dhammadinna","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":271}