{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp2.13/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp2.13","id":"suttacentral_snp2.13","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp2.13/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cI ask the sage abounding in wisdom\u2014 crossed-over, gone beyond, quenched, steadfast: when a mendicant has left home, <j>casting aside sensuality, what\u2019s the right way to wander the world?\u201d \u201cWhen they\u2019ve eradicated superstitions,\u201d said the Buddha, \u201cabout celestial portents, dreams, or bodily marks; with the stain of superstitions left behind, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. A mendicant ought dispel desire for pleasures human or heavenly; with rebirth transcended and truth comprehended, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Putting backbiting behind them, a mendicant gives up anger and stinginess; with favoring and opposing left behind, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. When the loved and the unloved are both left behind, not grasping or dependent on anything; freed from all things that fetter, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Finding no core in attachments, rid of desire for things they\u2019ve acquired, independent, needing no one to guide them, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Not hostile in speech, mind, or deed, they\u2019ve rightly understood the teaching. Aspiring to the state of extinguishment, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Not gloating that, \u2018they bow to me\u2019; though reviled, they\u2019d still stay in touch; not besotted when getting food from others, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. When greed and craving to live again are cast off, a mendicant refrains from violence and abduction; rid of indecision, free of thorns, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Knowing what is suitable for themselves, a mendicant would hurt no one in the world; understanding the teaching in line with the truth, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. They have no underlying tendencies at all, and are rid of unskillful roots; free of hope, with no need for hope, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Defilements ended, conceit given up, beyond all manner of desire; tamed, quenched, and steadfast, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. Faithful, learned, seer of the sure path, an attentive one joins no faction among sects; rid of greed, hate, and aversion, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. A purified victor with veil cast off, among worldly things master, transcendent, stilled; expert in knowledge of conditions\u2019 cessation, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. They\u2019re over speculating on the future or past, and understand what it means to be pure; freed from all the sense fields, they\u2019d rightly wander the world. The state of peace is understood, <j>the truth is comprehended, they\u2019ve openly seen defilements cast off; and with the ending of all attachments, they\u2019d rightly wander the world.\u201d \u201cClearly, Blessed One, it is just as you say. One who lives like this is a tamed mendicant, passed beyond all fetters and yokes: they\u2019d rightly wander the world.\u201d","title":"The Right Way to Wander","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":433}