{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag17.2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag17.2","id":"suttacentral_thag17.2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag17.2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cOne who\u2019s mindful <j>as per their conduct and mindfulness, diligent <j>as per their intentions and meditation, happy inside, serene, solitary, contented: that is what they call a mendicant. When eating fresh or dried food, one shouldn\u2019t be overly replete. A mendicant should wander mindfully, with empty stomach, taking limited food. Four or five mouthfuls before you\u2019re full, drink some water; this is enough for a resolute mendicant to live in comfort. If they cover themselves with a robe that\u2019s allowable and fit for purpose; this is enough for a resolute mendicant to live in comfort. When sitting cross-legged, the rain doesn\u2019t fall on the knees; this is enough for a resolute mendicant to live in comfort.\u201d \u201cWhen you\u2019ve seen happiness as suffering, and suffering as a dart, and that there\u2019s nothing between the two\u2014 what keeps you in the world? <j>What would you become? Thinking, \u2018May I have nothing to do <j>with those of bad wishes, lazy, lacking energy, unlearned, lacking regard for others\u2019\u2014 what keeps you in the world? <j>What would you become?\u201d \u201cAn intelligent, learned person, steady in ethics, devoted to serenity of heart\u2014 let them stand at the head.\u201d \u201cA beast who likes to proliferate, enjoying proliferation, fails to win extinguishment, the supreme sanctuary from the yoke. But one who gives up proliferation, enjoying the state of non-proliferation, wins extinguishment, the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.\u201d \u201cWhether in the village or the wilderness, in a valley or the uplands, wherever the perfected ones live is a delightful place.\u201d \u201cDelightful are the wildernesses where no people delight. Those free of greed will delight there, not those who seek sensual pleasures.\u201d \u201cRegard one who sees your faults as a guide to a hidden treasure. Stay close to one so intelligent and astute who curbs you when you need it. Sticking close to such an impartial person, things get better, not worse.\u201d \u201cAdvise and instruct; curb wickedness: for you shall be loved by the good, and disliked by the bad.\u201d \u201cThe Blessed One, the Buddha, the seer was teaching Dhamma to another. As he taught the Dhamma, I lent an ear to get the meaning. My listening wasn\u2019t wasted: I\u2019m freed, without defilements.\u201d \u201cNot for knowledge of past lives, nor even for clairvoyance; not for psychic powers, <j>or encompassing the minds of others, nor for knowing people\u2019s <j>passing away and being reborn; not for purifying the power of clairaudience, did I have any wish.\u201d \u201cHis only shelter is the foot of a tree; shaven, wrapped in his outer robe, the senior monk foremost in wisdom, Upatissa himself practices absorption. 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.\u201d \u201cTo the man who has not a blemish, who is always seeking purity, even a hair-tip of evil seems as big as a stormcloud.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t long for death; I don\u2019t long for life; I will lay down this body, aware and mindful. I don\u2019t long for death; I don\u2019t long for life; I await my time, like a worker waiting for their wages.\u201d \u201cBoth what came before and what follows after are nothing but death, not freedom from death. Practice, don\u2019t perish\u2014 don\u2019t let the moment pass you by. Just like a frontier city, is guarded inside and out, so you should ward yourselves\u2014 don\u2019t let the moment pass you by. For if you miss your moment you\u2019ll grieve when sent to hell.\u201d \u201cCalm and still, thoughtful in counsel, not restless\u2014 he shakes off bad qualities as the gale shakes leaves off a tree. Calm and still, thoughtful in counsel, not restless\u2014 he plucks off bad qualities as the gale shakes leaves off a tree. Calm and free of despair, clear and unclouded, of good morals, intelligent: one would make an end of suffering.\u201d \u201cSome householders, and even some renunciants, are not to be trusted. Some who were good later become bad; while some who were bad become good.\u201d \u201cSensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness, and doubt: these are the five mental stains for a monk.\u201d \u201cWhether they\u2019re honored or not honored, or both, their immersion doesn\u2019t waver as they abide in the immeasurables. They persistently practice absorption with subtle view and discernment. Rejoicing in the ending of grasping, they\u2019re said to be a true person.\u201d \u201cThe oceans and the earth, the mountains and the wind\u2014 no simile can do justice to the Teacher\u2019s magnificent liberation.\u201d \u201cThe senior monk who keeps the wheel rolling, he is very wise and serene. Like earth, like water, like fire, he is neither attracted nor repelled. He has attained the perfection of wisdom, so intelligent and thoughtful. He is bright, but seems to be dull; he always wanders, quenched.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve served the Teacher and fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. The heavy burden is laid down, the leash to existence is eradicated. Persist with diligence: this is my instruction. Come, I\u2019ll be fully quenched\u2014 I am everywhere free.\u201d","title":"S\u0101riputta","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":846}