{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn55.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn55.8","id":"suttacentral_sn55.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying at \u00d1\u0101tika in the brick house. Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, the monk named S\u0101\u1e37ha has passed away. Where has he been reborn in his next life? The nun named Nand\u0101, the layman named Sudatta, and the laywoman named Suj\u0101t\u0101 have passed away. Where have they been reborn in the next life?\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, the monk S\u0101\u1e37ha passed away having realized the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, having realized it with his own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. The nun Nand\u0101 passed away having ended the five lower fetters. She\u2019s been reborn spontaneously, and will be extinguished there, not liable to return from that world. The layman Sudatta passed away having ended three fetters, and weakened greed, hate, and delusion. He\u2019s a once-returner; he will come back to this world once only, then make an end of suffering. The laywoman Suj\u0101t\u0101 passed away having ended three fetters. She\u2019s a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening. It\u2019s no wonder that a human being should pass away. But if you should come and ask me about it each and every time someone dies that would be a bother for me. So \u0100nanda, I will teach you the explanation of the Dhamma named \u2018the mirror of the teaching\u2019. A noble disciple who has this may declare of themselves: \u2018I\u2019ve finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I\u2019ve finished with all places of loss, bad places, the underworld. I am a stream-enterer! I\u2019m not liable to be reborn in the underworld, and am assured, destined for awakening.\u2019 And what is that mirror of the teaching? It\u2019s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha \u2026 the teaching \u2026 the Sa\u1e45gha \u2026 And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones \u2026 leading to immersion. This is that mirror of the teaching. A noble disciple who has this may declare of themselves: \u2018I\u2019ve finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I\u2019ve finished with all places of loss, bad places, the underworld. I am a stream-enterer! I\u2019m not liable to be reborn in the underworld, and am assured, destined for awakening.\u2019\u201d (The following two discourses have the same setting.)","title":"In the Brick Hall (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":407}