{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig10.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig10.1","id":"suttacentral_thig10.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig10.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cPointing out how the world works, the sages have praised good friendship. Associating with good friends, even a fool becomes astute. Associate with true persons, for that is how wisdom grows. Should you associate with true persons, you would be freed from all suffering. And you would understand suffering, its origin and cessation, the eightfold path, and so the four noble truths.\u201d \u201c\u2018A woman\u2019s life is painful,\u2019 explained the Buddha, <j>guide for those fit to train, \u2018and for a co-wife it\u2019s especially so. After giving birth just once, some women even cut their own throat, while delicate ladies take poison. Being guilty of killing a person, they both undergo ruin.\u2019\u201d \u201cI was on the road, near to giving birth, when I saw my husband dead. I gave birth there on the road before I\u2019d reached my own house. My two children have died, and on the road my husband lies dead\u2014<j>oh woe is me! Mother, father, and brother all burning up on the same pyre.\u201d \u201cOh woe is you whose family is lost, the suffering you have undergone has no measure; you have been shedding tears for many thousands of lives.\u201d \u201cWhile staying in the charnel ground, I saw my son\u2019s flesh being eaten. With my family destroyed, condemned by all, and my husband dead, I realized freedom from death. I\u2019ve developed the noble eightfold path leading to freedom from death. I\u2019ve realized extinguishment, as seen in the mirror of the Dhamma. I\u2019ve plucked out the dart, laid down the burden, <j>and done what needed to be done.\u201d The senior nun Kis\u0101gotam\u012b, her mind released, said this.","title":"Kis\u0101gotam\u012b","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":267}