{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn56.46/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn56.46","id":"suttacentral_sn56.46","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.46/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, the boundless gloom of interstellar space is so utterly dark that even the luminosity of the moon and the sun, so mighty and powerful, makes no impression.\u201d When he said this, one of the mendicants said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, that darkness really is mighty, so very mighty. Is there any other darkness more mighty and terrifying than this one?\u201d \u201cThere is, mendicant.\u201d \u201cBut sir, what is it?\u201d \u201cThere 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 fall into the darkness 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 fall into the darkness 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":"Darkness","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":235}