{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag17.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag17.1","id":"suttacentral_thag17.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag17.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"Seeing many who inspire confidence, evolved and well-restrained, the seer of the Pa\u1e47\u1e0dara clan, asked the one known as Phussa: \u201cIn future times, what desire and motivation and behavior will people have? Please answer my question.\u201d \u201cListen to my words, O seer known as a Pa\u1e47\u1e0dara, and remember them carefully, I will describe the future. In the future many will be angry and hostile, offensive, stubborn, and devious, jealous, holding divergent views. Imagining they understand <j>the depths of the teaching, they resort to the near shore. Superficial and disrespectful toward the teaching, they lack respect for one another. In the future many dangers will arise in the world. Idiots will defile the Dhamma that was taught so well. Though bereft of good qualities, unlearned prattlers, too sure of themselves, will become powerful in running Sa\u1e45gha proceedings. Though possessing good qualities, the conscientious and unbiased, <j>acting in the proper spirit, will become weak in running Sa\u1e45gha proceedings. In the future, simpletons will accept currency and gold, fields and land, goats and sheep, and bonded servants, male and female. Fools finding fault in others, but unsteady in their own ethics, will wander about, insolent, like cantankerous beasts. They\u2019ll be haughty, wrapped in robes of blue; deceivers and flatterers, pompous and fake, they\u2019ll wander as if they were noble ones. With hair sleeked back with oil, fickle, their eyes painted with eyeshadow, they\u2019ll travel on the high-road, wrapped in robes of ivory color. The deep-dyed ocher robe, worn without disgust by the free, they will come to loathe, besotted by white clothes. They\u2019ll want lots of possessions, and be lazy, lacking energy. Weary of the forest, they\u2019ll stay within villages. Being unrestrained, they\u2019ll keep company with those who acquire profit, and who always enjoy wrong livelihood, following their example. They won\u2019t respect those who don\u2019t get lots of stuff, and they won\u2019t associate with the attentive, even though they\u2019re very amiable. Disparaging their own banner, dyed a vermilion color, some will wear the white banner of those of other religions. Then they\u2019ll have no respect for the ocher robe. The mendicants will not reflect on the nature of the ocher robe. This awful lack of reflection was unthinkable to the elephant, who was overcome by suffering, inflicted by an arrow strike. Then the six-tusked elephant, seeing the deep-dyed banner of the perfected ones, straight away spoke these verses connected with the goal. \u2018One who, not free of stains themselves, would wear the robe stained in ocher, bereft of self-control and truth: they are not worthy of the ocher robe. One who\u2019s purged all their stains, steady in ethics, possessing truth and self-control: they are truly worthy of the ocher robe.\u2019 Devoid of virtue, a simpleton, wild, doing what they like, their minds astray, indolent: they are not worthy of the ocher robe. One accomplished in ethics, free of greed, serene, their heart\u2019s intention pure: they are truly worthy of the ocher robe. The haughty, insolent fool, who has no ethics at all, is worthy of a white robe\u2014 what use is an ocher robe for them? In the future, monks and nuns with corrupt hearts, lacking regard for others, will disparage those with hearts of loving-kindness. Though trained in wearing the robe by senior monks, simpletons will not listen, wild, doing what they like. With that kind of attitude to training, those fools won\u2019t respect each other, or take any notice of their mentors, like a wild colt with its charioteer. Even so, in the future, this will be the practice of monks and nuns when the latter days have come. Before this frightening future arrives, be easy to admonish, courteous in speech, and respect one another. Have hearts of love and compassion, and please do keep your precepts. Be energetic, resolute, and always staunchly vigorous. Seeing negligence as fearful, and diligence as a sanctuary, develop the eightfold path, realizing the state free of death.\u201d \u2026","title":"Phussa","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":653}