{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp4.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp4.5","id":"suttacentral_snp4.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"If, maintaining that theirs is the \u201cultimate\u201d view, a personage makes it out to be highest in the world; then they declare all others are \u201clesser\u201d; that\u2019s why they\u2019re not beyond disputes. If they see an advantage for themselves in what\u2019s seen, heard, or thought; <j>or in precepts or vows, in that case, having adopted that one alone, they see all others as inferior. Those who are skilled say that, too, is a knot, relying on which people see others as lesser. That\u2019s why a mendicant ought not rely on what\u2019s seen, heard, or thought, <j>or on precepts and vows. Nor would they form a view about the world through a notion or through precepts and vows. They would never represent themselves as \u201cequal\u201d, nor conceive themselves \u201cworse\u201d or \u201cbetter\u201d. What was picked up has been set down <j>and is not grasped again; they form no dependency even on notions. They follow no side among the factions, and believe in no view at all. One here who has no wish for either end\u2014 for any state of existence in this life or the next\u2014 has adopted no dogma at all after judging among the teachings. For them not even the tiniest idea is formulated here regarding what is seen, heard, or thought. That brahmin does not grasp any view\u2014 how could anyone in this world judge them? They don\u2019t make things up or promote them, and don\u2019t subscribe to any of the doctrines. The brahmin has no need to be led by precept or vow; gone to the far shore, one such does not return.","title":"Eight on the Ultimate","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":265}