{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag14.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag14.1","id":"suttacentral_thag14.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag14.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"Since I\u2019ve gone forth from the lay life to homelessness, I\u2019ve not been aware of any thought that is ignoble and hateful. \u201cMay these beings be killed! May they be slaughtered! May they suffer!\u201d\u2014 I\u2019ve not been aware of any such thought in all this long while. I have been aware of loving-kindness, limitless and well-developed; gradually consolidated as it was taught by the Buddha. I\u2019m friend and comrade to all, sympathetic for all beings! I develop a mind of love, always delighting in harmlessness. The unfaltering, the unshakable: I gladden that mind. I develop a divine meditation, which reprobates do not cultivate. When in a meditation  free of placing the mind, a disciple of the Buddha is at that moment blessed with noble silence. As a rocky mountain is unwavering and well grounded, so when delusion ends, a monk, like a mountain, doesn\u2019t tremble. To the man who has not a blemish, who is always seeking purity, even a hair-tip of evil seems as big as a stormcloud. As a frontier city is guarded inside and out, so you should ward yourselves\u2014 don\u2019t let the moment pass you by. I don\u2019t long for death; I don\u2019t long for life; I await my time, like a worker waiting for their wages. I don\u2019t long for death; I don\u2019t long for life; I await my time, aware and mindful. I\u2019ve served the Teacher and fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. The heavy burden is laid down, the leash to existence is eradicated. I\u2019ve attained the goal for the sake of which I went forth from the lay life to homelessness\u2014 the ending of all fetters. Persist with diligence: this is my instruction. Come, I\u2019ll be fully quenched\u2014 I\u2019m liberated in every way.","title":"Revata of the Acacia Wood","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":289}