{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag17.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag17.3","id":"suttacentral_thag17.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag17.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThe astute would not make friends with the slanderous or the hateful, with a miser or a gloater, for it\u2019s bad to consort with reprobates. The astute would make friends with the faithful and the pleasant, the wise and the learned, for it\u2019s a blessing to consort with true persons.\u201d \u201cSee this fancy puppet, a body built of sores, diseased, obsessed over, in which nothing lasts at all. See this fancy puppet, with its gems and earrings; it is bones swathed in skin, made pretty by its clothes. Rouged feet and powdered face may be enough to beguile a fool, but not a seeker of the far shore. Hair in eight braids and eyeshadow may be enough to beguile a fool, but not a seeker of the far shore. A rotting body all adorned like a freshly painted makeup box may be enough to beguile a fool, but not a seeker of the far shore.\u201d \u201cGotama is learned, a brilliant speaker, the attendant to the Buddha. With burden put down, detached, Gotama made his bed. Defilements ended, detached, he has got over clinging and become quenched. He bears his final body, having gone beyond birth and death.\u201d \u201cGotama stands firm on the path that leads to quenching, where the teachings of the Buddha, the Kinsman of the Sun, are grounded.\u201d \u201c82,000 from the Buddha, and 2,000 more from the monks: 84,000 teachings I\u2019ve learned, and these are what I promulgate.\u201d \u201cA person of little learning ages like an ox\u2014 their flesh grows, but not their wisdom. A learned person who, on account of their learning, looks down on someone of little learning, strikes me as like a blind man holding a lamp. You should stay close to a learned person\u2014 don\u2019t lose what you\u2019ve learned. It is the root of the spiritual life, which is why you should memorize the teaching. Knowing the sequence and meaning of the teaching, expert in the definition of terms, they make sure it is well memorized, and then examine the meaning. Accepting the teachings, they become enthusiastic; making an attempt, they weigh up the teaching. When it\u2019s time, they strive serene inside themselves. If you want to understand the teaching, you should befriend that sort, who are learned and have memorized the teachings, wise disciples of the Buddha. One who is learned <j>and has memorized the teaching, a keeper of the great seer\u2019s treasury, is a visionary for the whole world, learned and honorable. Delighting in the teaching, enjoying the teaching, contemplating the teaching, a mendicant who recollects the teaching doesn\u2019t fall away from the true teaching.\u201d \u201cWhen your body is pampered and heavy, while your remaining time is running out, greedy for physical pleasure, how can you be comfortable as an ascetic?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m completely disorientated! The teachings don\u2019t spring to mind! With the passing of our good friend, everything seems dark. When your friend has passed away, and your Teacher is past and gone, there\u2019s no friend like mindfulness of the body. The old have passed away, and I don\u2019t agree with the new. Today I meditate alone like a bird snug in its nest.\u201d \u201cMany visitors from abroad have come to visit. Don\u2019t block the audience, let the congregation see me.\u201d \u201cLots of visitors from abroad have come to visit. The teacher grants them the opportunity, the Clear-eyed One doesn\u2019t turn them away.\u201d \u201cIn the twenty five years that have passed since I became a trainee, no sensual perception has arisen in me: behold the clear rightness of the teaching! In the twenty-five years since I became a trainee, no malicious perception has arisen in me: behold the clear rightness of the teaching!\u201d \u201cFor twenty-five years I attended on the Buddha with loving deeds, like a shadow that never left. For twenty-five years I attended on the Buddha with loving words, like a shadow that never left. For twenty-five years I attended on the Buddha with loving thoughts, like a shadow that never left. While the Buddha was walking mindfully, I walked behind him. As he taught the Dhamma, knowledge arose in me.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a trainee, who has more to do; my heart\u2019s desire is still unfulfilled. Yet the Teacher, who was so compassionate to me, has become fully extinguished. Then there was terror! Then they had goosebumps! When the Buddha, endowed with all fine qualities, was fully quenched.\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, who was learned <j>and had memorized the teaching, a keeper of the great seer\u2019s treasury, a visionary for the entire world, has become fully quenched. He was learned <j>and had memorized the teaching, a keeper of the great seer\u2019s treasury, a visionary for the entire world, in thick of night he dispelled the dark. He is the seer who remembered the teachings, and mastered their sequence, holding them firm. The senior monk who memorized the teaching, \u0100nanda was a mine of gems.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve served the Teacher and fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. The heavy burden is laid down, now there\u2019ll be no more future lives.\u201d","title":"\u0100nanda","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":832}