{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn56.33/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn56.33","id":"suttacentral_sn56.33","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.33/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, suppose a stick was tossed up in the air. Sometimes it\u2019d fall on its bottom and sometimes the top. It\u2019s the same for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. Sometimes they go from this world to the other world, and sometimes they come from the other world to this world. Why is that? It\u2019s because they haven\u2019t seen the four noble truths. What four? The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path. That\u2019s why you should practice meditation \u2026\u201d","title":"A Stick","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":90}