{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.3","id":"suttacentral_snp5.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cWho here in the world is content?\u201d said Venerable Tissametteyya. \u201cWho has no perturbations? What thoughtful one, knowing both ends, is not stuck in the middle? Who do they say is a great man? Who here has escaped the seamstress?\u201d \u201cLeading the spiritual life among sensual pleasures,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201crid of craving, ever mindful; a mendicant who, after appraisal, is quenched: that\u2019s who has no perturbations. That thoughtful one, knowing both ends, is not stuck in the middle. He is a great man, I declare; he has escaped the seamstress here.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Tissametteyya","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":92}