{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn7.2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn7.2","id":"suttacentral_sn7.2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. The brahmin Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja the Rude heard a rumor that a brahmin of the Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja clan had gone forth from the lay life to homelessness in the presence of the ascetic Gotama. Angry and displeased he went to the Buddha and abused and insulted him with rude, harsh words. When he had spoken, the Buddha said to him: \u201cWhat do you think, brahmin? Do friends and colleagues, relatives and kin, and guests still come to visit you?\u201d \u201cSometimes they do, worthy Gotama.\u201d \u201cDo you then serve them with fresh and cooked foods and savories?\u201d \u201cSometimes I do.\u201d \u201cBut if they don\u2019t accept it, brahmin, who does it belong to?\u201d \u201cIn that case it still belongs to me.\u201d \u201cIn the same way, brahmin, when you abuse, harass, and attack us who do not abuse, harass, and attack, we don\u2019t accept it. It still belongs to you, brahmin, it still belongs to you! Someone who, when abused, harassed, and attacked, abuses, harasses, and attacks in return is said to eat the food and have a reaction to it. But we neither eat your food nor do we have a reaction to it. It still belongs to you, brahmin, it still belongs to you!\u201d \u201cThe king and his retinue believe of the worthy Gotama, \u2018the ascetic Gotama is a perfected one\u2019. And yet he still gets angry.\u201d \u201cWhence anger for one free of anger, tamed, living justly, freed by right knowledge, peaceful and unaffected? When you get angry at an angry person you just make things worse for yourself. When you don\u2019t get angry at an angry person you win a battle hard to win. When you know that the other is angry, you act for the good of both yourself and the other if you\u2019re mindful and stay calm. People inexpert in the teaching consider one who heals both oneself and the other to be a fool.\u201d When he had spoken, Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja the Rude said to the Buddha, \u201cExcellent, worthy Gotama! \u2026 I go for refuge to the worthy Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha. Sir, may I receive the going forth, the ordination in the worthy Gotama\u2019s presence?\u201d And the brahmin Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja the Rude received the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha\u2019s presence. Not long after his ordination, Venerable Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja the Rude, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness. He understood: \u201cRebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is nothing further for this place.\u201d And Venerable Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja became one of the perfected.","title":"With Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja the Rude","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":477}