{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.12/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.12","id":"suttacentral_snp5.12","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.12/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cHearing of the hero <j>with no desire for sensual pleasures,\u201d said Venerable Jatuka\u1e47\u1e47\u012b, \u201cwho has passed over the flood, I\u2019ve come <j>with a question for that desireless one. Tell me the state of peace, O natural visionary. Tell me this, Blessed One, as it really is. For, having mastered sensual desires, <j>the Blessed One proceeds, as the blazing sun shines on the earth. May you of vast wisdom explain the teaching to me of little wisdom so that I may understand the giving up of rebirth and old age here.\u201d \u201cWith desire for sensual pleasures dispelled,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cseeing renunciation as sanctuary, don\u2019t be taking up or putting down anything at all. What came before, let wither away, and after, let there be nothing. If you don\u2019t grasp at the middle, you will live at peace. One rid of greed, brahmin, for the whole realm of name and form, has no defilements by which they might fall under the sway of Death.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Jatuka\u1e47\u1e47\u012b","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":163}