{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.19/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.19","id":"suttacentral_snp5.19","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.19/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cI shall keep reciting the Way to the Far Shore,\u201d said Venerable Pi\u1e45giya, \u201cwhich was taught as it was seen by the immaculate one of vast intelligence. He is desireless, unentangled, a spiritual giant: why would he speak falsely? Come, let me extol in sweet words of praise the one who\u2019s given up stains and delusions, conceit and contempt. The Buddha, All-seer, dispeller of darkness, has gone to world\u2019s end, beyond all rebirths; he is free of defilements, <j>and has given up all suffering, the rightly-named one, brahmin, is revered by me. Like a bird that flees a little copse, to roost in a forest abounding in fruit, I\u2019ve left the near-sighted behind, like a swan come to a great river. Those who explained to me previously, before Gotama\u2019s teaching, said \u2018thus it was\u2019 or \u2018so it shall be\u2019. All that was just the testament of hearsay; all that just fostered speculation. Alone, the dispeller of darkness is brilliant, a beacon: Gotama, vast in wisdom, Gotama, vast in intelligence. He is the one who taught me Dhamma, apparent in the present life, immediately effective, the untroubled, the end of craving, to which there is no compare.\u201d \u201cWhy would you dwell apart from him even for an hour, Pi\u1e45giya? From Gotama, vast in wisdom, from Gotama, vast in intelligence? He is the one who taught you Dhamma, apparent in the present life, immediately effective, the untroubled, the end of craving, to which there is no compare.\u201d \u201cI never dwell apart from him, not even for an hour, brahmin. From Gotama, vast in wisdom, from Gotama, vast in intelligence. He is the one who taught me Dhamma, apparent in the present life, immediately effective, the untroubled, the end of craving, to which there is no compare. Being diligent, I see him in my mind\u2019s eye day and night. I spend the night in homage to him, hence I think I dwell with him. My faith and joy and intent and mindfulness never stray from Gotama\u2019s teaching. I bow to whatever direction the one of vast wisdom heads. I\u2019m old and feeble, so my body cannot go there, but I always travel in my thoughts, for my mind, brahmin, is bound to him. Lying floundering in the mud, I drifted from island to island. Then I saw the Buddha, the undefiled one who has crossed the flood.\u201d \u201cJust as Vakkali was committed to faith\u2014 Bhadr\u0101vudha and Gotama of \u0100\u1e37av\u012b too\u2014 so too you should commit to faith. You will go, Pi\u1e45giya, beyond the domain of death.\u201d \u201cMy confidence grows as I hear the word of the sage, the Buddha with veil cast off, so kind and eloquent. Having directly known all about the gods, he understands all top to bottom, the Teacher who settles all questions for those who admit their doubts. The unfaltering, the unshakable: that to which there is no compare. For sure I will go there, I have no doubt of that. Remember me as one whose mind is made up.\u201d The Anthology of Discourses is completed.","title":"Preserving the Way to the Far Shore","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":507}