{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn8.2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn8.2","id":"suttacentral_sn8.2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable Va\u1e45g\u012bsa was staying near \u0100\u1e37av\u012b, at \u0100\u1e37av\u012b\u2019s premier shrine, together with his mentor, Venerable Nigrodhakappa. Now at that time after Venerable Nigrodhakappa had finished his meal, on his return from almsround, he would enter his dwelling and not emerge for the rest of that day, or the next. And at that time Venerable Va\u1e45g\u012bsa became dissatisfied, as lust infected his mind. Then he thought, \u201cIt\u2019s my loss, my misfortune, that I\u2019ve become dissatisfied, with lust infecting my mind. How is it possible for someone else to dispel my discontent and give rise to satisfaction? Why don\u2019t I do it myself?\u201d Then, on the occasion of dispelling his own discontent and giving rise to satisfaction, he recited these verses: \u201cGiving up desire and discontent, along with all thoughts of domestic life, they wouldn\u2019t get snarled in anything; unsnarled, undesiring: that\u2019s a real mendicant. Whatever here is included in form\u2014 on earth, in the sky, or in planet\u2019s deep\u2014 wears out, it is all impermanent: the self-examined live having comprehended this. People are bound to their attachments, to impingement of the seen and heard, <j>and to what is thought. Unstirred, dispel desire for these things; for one called \u2018a sage\u2019 does not cling to them. Trapped in the sixty wrong views, <j>full of their own opinions, ordinary people are fixed in wrong principles. But that mendicant wouldn\u2019t join a sect, still less would they utter lewd speech. Proficient, long serene, free of deceit, alert, without envy, the sage has reached the state of peace; quenched, he awaits his time.\u201d","title":"Dissatisfaction","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":261}