{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn56.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn56.10","id":"suttacentral_sn56.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, don\u2019t engage in all kinds of low talk, such as talk about kings, bandits, and chief ministers; talk about armies, threats, and wars; talk about food, drink, clothes, and beds; talk about garlands and fragrances; talk about family, vehicles, villages, towns, cities, and countries; talk about women and heroes; talk at the street market and the place for water pots; talk about the departed; motley talk; tales of land and sea; and talk about being reborn in this or that place. Why is that? Because those discussions aren\u2019t beneficial or relevant to the fundamentals of the spiritual life. They don\u2019t lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment. When you discuss, you should discuss: \u2018This is suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the origin of suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the cessation of suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering\u2019. \u2026 That\u2019s why you should practice meditation \u2026\u201d","title":"Low Talk","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":154}