{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp4.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp4.9","id":"suttacentral_snp4.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cEven when I saw the sirens <j>Craving, Malignancy, and Lust, I had no desire for sex. What is this body full of piss and shit? I wouldn\u2019t even want to touch it with my foot.\u201d \u201cIf you do not want a gem such as this, a lady desired by many lords of men, then what manner of theory, <j>precepts and vows, livelihood, and rebirth in a new life do you assert?\u201d \u201cAfter judging among the teachings,\u201d said the Buddha to M\u0101ga\u1e47\u1e0diya, \u201cnone have been adopted thinking, \u2018I assert this.\u2019 Seeing views without adopting any, searching, I saw inner peace.\u201d \u201cO sage, you speak of judgments you have formed,\u201d said M\u0101ga\u1e47\u1e0diya, \u201cwithout having adopted any of those views. As to that matter of \u2018inner peace\u2019\u2014 how is that described by the attentive?\u201d \u201cPurity is spoken of not as due to view,\u201d said the Buddha to M\u0101ga\u1e47\u1e0diya, \u201clearning, knowledge, or precepts and vows; nor without view, learning, knowledge, or precepts and vows. Having relinquished these, not adopting them, peaceful, independent, one would not pray <j>for another life.\u201d \u201cIt seems purity is spoken of not as due to view,\u201d said M\u0101ga\u1e47\u1e0diya, \u201clearning, knowledge, or precepts and vows; nor without view, learning, knowledge, or precepts and vows. If so, I think this teaching is sheer folly; some believe that purity comes from view.\u201d \u201cContinuing to question while relying on a view,\u201d said the Buddha to M\u0101ga\u1e47\u1e0diya, \u201cyou\u2019ve become confused by all you\u2019ve adopted. From this you\u2019ve not glimpsed the slightest idea, which is why you consider the teaching folly. If you think that \u2018I\u2019m equal, special, or worse\u2019, you\u2019ll dispute about that. Not wavering due to the three discriminations, they have no thought, \u2018I\u2019m equal or special\u2019. Why would that brahmin say, \u2018It\u2019s true\u2019, or with whom would they dispute, \u2018It\u2019s false\u2019? There is no equal or unequal in them, so who would they take on in debate? After leaving their bastion to migrate without abode, a sage doesn\u2019t get close to anyone in town. Rid of sensual pleasures, not expecting, they wouldn\u2019t get in arguments with people. A spiritual giant would not take up for debate the things in the world from which they live secluded. As a prickly lotus born in the water is unsullied by water and mud, so the greedless sage, proponent of peace, is unsmeared by sensuality and the world. A knowledge master does not become conceited due to view or thought, <j>for they are not determined by that. They\u2019ve no need for deeds or learning, they\u2019re not indoctrinated in dogmas. There are no ties for one detached from ideas; there are no delusions for one freed by wisdom. But those who have adopted ideas and views wander the world causing conflict.\u201d","title":"With M\u0101ga\u1e47\u1e0diya","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":453}