{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig6.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig6.3","id":"suttacentral_thig6.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig6.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cYou\u2019re so young and beautiful! I too am young, just a youth. Come, Khem\u0101, let us enjoy the music of a five-piece band.\u201d \u201cThis body is rotting, ailing and frail, I\u2019m horrified and repelled by it, and I\u2019ve eradicated sensual craving. Sensual pleasures are like swords and spears; the aggregates are their chopping block. What you call erotic delight is now no delight for me. Relishing is banished in every respect, and the mass of darkness is shattered. So know this, Wicked One: you\u2019re beaten, terminator!\u201d \u201cWorshiping the stars, serving the sacred flame in a grove; failing to grasp the true nature of things, foolish me, I thought this was purity. But now I worship the Awakened One, supreme among men. Doing the Teacher\u2019s bidding, I am released from all suffering.\u201d","title":"Khem\u0101","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":131}