{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.9","id":"suttacentral_snp5.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThose who have previously answered me,\u201d said Venerable Hemaka, \u201cbefore 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: I found no delight in that. But you, sage, explain to me the teaching that destroys craving. Having understood it, one who lives mindfully may cross over clinging in the world.\u201d \u201cThe removal of desire and lust, Hemaka, for pleasant things seen, heard, thought, or cognized here is extinguishment, the state that does not pass. Those who have fully understood this, mindful, are quenched in this very life. Always at peace, they\u2019ve crossed over clinging to the world.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Hemaka","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":112}