{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn56.43/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn56.43","id":"suttacentral_sn56.43","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.43/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there is a hell called \u2018The Great Scorching\u2019. There, whatever sight you see with your eye is unlikable, not likable; undesirable, not desirable; unpleasant, not pleasant. Whatever sound you hear \u2026 Whatever odor you smell \u2026 Whatever flavor you taste \u2026 Whatever touch you feel \u2026 Whatever idea you know with your mind is unlikable, not likable; undesirable, not desirable; unpleasant, not pleasant.\u201d When he said this, one of the mendicants said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, that scorching really is mighty, so very mighty. Is there any other scorching more mighty and terrifying than this one?\u201d \u201cThere is, mendicant.\u201d \u201cBut sir, what is it?\u201d \u201cMendicants, 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 \u2026 They continue to make such choices \u2026 Having made such choices, they burn with the scorching 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 \u2026 They stop making such choices \u2026 Having stopped making such choices, they don\u2019t burn with the scorching 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":"The Great Scorching","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":272}