{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn9.11/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn9.11","id":"suttacentral_sn9.11","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.11/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove. Now at that time that mendicant, during their day\u2019s meditation, was thinking bad, unskillful thoughts, that is, sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts. The deity haunting that forest had sympathy for that mendicant, and wanted what\u2019s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse: \u201cBecause of irrational application of mind, you\u2019re consumed by your thoughts. When you\u2019ve given up irrationality, make sure your thoughts are rational. Thinking about the Teacher, the teaching, the Sa\u1e45gha, and your own ethics, you\u2019ll find gladness, and rapture and bliss as well, no doubt. And when you\u2019re full of joy, you\u2019ll make an end to suffering.\u201d Impelled by that deity, that mendicant was struck with a sense of urgency.","title":"Unskillful Thoughts","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":143}