{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn56.42/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn56.42","id":"suttacentral_sn56.42","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.42/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain. Then the Buddha said to the mendicants, \u201cCome, mendicants, let\u2019s go to Inspiration Peak for the day\u2019s meditation.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d they replied. Then the Buddha together with several mendicants went to Inspiration Peak. A certain mendicant saw the big cliff there and said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, that big cliff is really big and scary. Is there any other cliff bigger and scarier than this one?\u201d \u201cThere is, mendicant.\u201d \u201cBut sir, what is it?\u201d \u201cMendicant, there are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t truly understand about suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path. They take pleasure in choices that lead to rebirth, old age, and death, to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. Since they take pleasure in such choices, they continue to make them. Having made choices that lead to rebirth, old age, and death, to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress, they fall down the cliff of rebirth, old age, and death, of sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re not freed from suffering, I say. There are ascetics and brahmins who truly understand about suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path. They don\u2019t take pleasure in choices that lead to rebirth, old age, and death, to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. Since they don\u2019t take pleasure in such choices, they stop making them. Having stopped making choices that lead to rebirth, old age, and death, to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress, they don\u2019t fall down the cliff of rebirth, old age, and death, of sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They\u2019re freed from suffering, I say. That\u2019s why you should practice meditation \u2026\u201d","title":"A Cliff","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":314}