{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn6.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn6.9","id":"suttacentral_sn6.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn6.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Now at that time the mendicant Kok\u0101lika was sick, suffering, gravely ill. Then, late at night, the glorious independent divinity Tudu, lighting up the entire Jeta\u2019s Grove, went up to the mendicant Kok\u0101lika, and standing in the air he said to him, \u201cKok\u0101lika, have confidence in S\u0101riputta and Moggall\u0101na, they\u2019re good monks.\u201d \u201cWho are you, reverend?\u201d \u201cI am Tudu the independent divinity.\u201d \u201cDidn\u2019t the Buddha declare you a non-returner? So what then are you doing back here? See how far you have strayed!\u201d \u201cA person is born with an axe in their mouth. A fool cuts themselves with it when they say bad words. When you praise someone worthy of criticism, or criticize someone worthy of praise, you choose a losing hand with your own mouth: you\u2019ll never find happiness that way. A losing hand at dice is a trivial thing, if all you lose is your money and all you own, even yourself. What\u2019s a really terrible hand is to hate the holy ones. For a hundred thousand times a hundred million, times five hundred and thirty-six times <j>a thousand times ten million years a slanderer of noble ones goes to hell, having aimed bad words and thoughts at them.\u201d","title":"With the Divinity Tudu","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":203}