{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.6","id":"suttacentral_snp5.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.6/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cI ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this,\u201d said Venerable Dhotaka, \u201cI long for your voice, great seer. After hearing your message, I shall train myself for extinguishment.\u201d \u201cWell then, be keen, alert,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cand mindful right here. After hearing this message, go on and train yourself for extinguishment.\u201d \u201cI see in the world of gods and humans a brahmin traveling with nothing. I bow especially to you, All-seer: release me, Sakyan, from my indecisions.\u201d \u201cI am not able to release anyone in the world who is indecisive, Dhotaka. But when you understand the best of teachings, you shall cross this flood.\u201d \u201cTeach me, brahmin, out of compassion, the principle of seclusion so that I may understand. I wish to practice right here, peaceful, independent, unobstructed as space itself.\u201d \u201cI shall extol that peace for you,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cthat is apparent in the present, not relying on legends. Having understood it, one who lives mindfully may cross over clinging in the world.\u201d \u201cAnd I rejoice, great seer, in that supreme peace, having understood which, one who lives mindfully may cross over clinging in the world.\u201d \u201cOnce you have understood that everything,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cyou are aware of in the world\u2014 above, below, all round, between\u2014 is a chain, don\u2019t crave for life after life.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Dhotaka","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":219}