{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig7.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig7.3","id":"suttacentral_thig7.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig7.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cA nun with faculties developed, mindful, seeing clearly, I penetrated that peaceful state, which reprobates do not cultivate.\u201d \u201cWhy don\u2019t you approve of rebirth? When you\u2019re born, you get to enjoy sensual pleasures. Enjoy erotic delights; don\u2019t regret it later.\u201d \u201cDeath comes to those who are born; and when born they fall into suffering: the chopping off of hands and feet, killing, caging, misery. But there is one born in the Sakyan clan, awakened and undefeated. He taught me the Dhamma for transcending rebirth: suffering, suffering\u2019s origin, suffering\u2019s transcendence, and the noble eightfold path that leads to the stilling of suffering. After hearing his words, I happily did his bidding. I\u2019ve attained the three knowledges and fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. Relishing is banished in every respect, and the mass of darkness is shattered. So know this, Wicked One: you\u2019re beaten, terminator!\u201d","title":"Upac\u0101l\u0101","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":141}