{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.17/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.17","id":"suttacentral_snp5.17","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.17/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cI am old, feeble, and pallid,\u201d said Venerable Pi\u1e45giya, \u201cmy eyes unclear, my hearing faint\u2014 don\u2019t let me perish while still confused. Explain the teaching so that I may understand the giving up of rebirth and old age here.\u201d \u201cSeeing them being harmed <j>on account of forms,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cthose negligent folk are inflicted <j>on account of forms\u2014 therefore, Pi\u1e45giya, being diligent, give up form so as not to be reborn.\u201d \u201cThe four quarters, the intermediate directions, below, and above: in these ten directions there\u2019s nothing at all in the world that you\u2019ve not seen, heard, thought, or cognized. Explain the teaching so that I may understand the giving up of rebirth and old age here.\u201d \u201cObserving mankind sunk in craving,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201ctormented, mired in old age; therefore, Pi\u1e45giya, being diligent, give up craving so as not to be reborn.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Pi\u1e45giya","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":143}