{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud1.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud1.10","id":"suttacentral_ud1.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud1.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time B\u0101hiya of the Bark Cloth was residing by Supp\u0101raka on the ocean shore, where he was honored, respected, revered, venerated, and esteemed. And he received robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. Then as he was in private retreat this thought came to his mind, \u201cI am one of those in the world who are perfected or on the path to perfection.\u201d Then a deity who was a former relative of B\u0101hiya, having sympathy and wanting what\u2019s best for him, approached him and said: \u201cB\u0101hiya, you\u2019re not a perfected one, nor on the path to perfection. You don\u2019t have the practice by which you might become a perfected one or one on the path to perfection.\u201d \u201cSo who then are those in the world who are perfected or on the path to perfection?\u201d \u201cIn the northern lands there is a city named S\u0101vatth\u012b. There that Blessed One is now staying, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. He is a perfected one and teaches the Dhamma for the sake of perfection.\u201d Impelled by that deity, B\u0101hiya left Supp\u0101raka right away. Sojourning no more than a single night in any place, he made his way to An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery in the Jeta Grove at S\u0101vatth\u012b. At that time several mendicants were walking mindfully in the open air. B\u0101hiya approached them and said, \u201cSirs, where is the Blessed One at present, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha? For I want to see him.\u201d \u201cHe has entered an inhabited area for almsfood, B\u0101hiya.\u201d Then B\u0101hiya rushed out of the Jeta Grove and entered S\u0101vatth\u012b, where he saw the Buddha walking for alms. He was impressive and inspiring, with peaceful faculties and heart, attained to the highest self-control and serenity, like an elephant with tamed, guarded, and controlled faculties. B\u0101hiya went up to the Buddha, bowed down with his head to the Buddha\u2019s feet, and said, \u201cSir, let the Blessed One teach me the Dhamma! Let the Holy One teach me the Dhamma! That would be for my lasting welfare and happiness.\u201d The Buddha said this: \u201cIt\u2019s not the time, B\u0101hiya, so long as I have entered an inhabited area for almsfood.\u201d For a second time, B\u0101hiya said, \u201cBut you never know, sir, when life is at risk, either the Buddha\u2019s or my own. Let the Blessed One teach me the Dhamma! Let the Holy One teach me the Dhamma! That would be for my lasting welfare and happiness.\u201d For a second time, the Buddha said, \u201cIt\u2019s not the time, B\u0101hiya, so long as I have entered an inhabited area for almsfood.\u201d For a third time, B\u0101hiya said, \u201cBut you never know, sir, when life is at risk, either the Buddha\u2019s or my own. Let the Blessed One teach me the Dhamma! Let the Holy One teach me the Dhamma! That would be for my lasting welfare and happiness.\u201d \u201cIn that case, B\u0101hiya, you should train like this: \u2018In the seen will be merely the seen; in the heard will be merely the heard; in the thought will be merely the thought; in the known will be merely the known.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train. When you have trained in this way, you won\u2019t be \u2018by that\u2019. When you\u2019re not \u2018by that\u2019, you won\u2019t be \u2018in that\u2019. When you\u2019re not \u2018in that\u2019, you won\u2019t be in this life or the next or between the two. Just this is the end of suffering.\u201d Then, due to this brief Dhamma teaching of the Buddha, B\u0101hiya\u2019s mind was right away freed from defilements by not grasping. And when the Buddha had given B\u0101hiya this brief advice he left. But soon after the Buddha had left, a cow with a baby calf charged at B\u0101hiya and took his life. Then the Buddha wandered for alms in S\u0101vatth\u012b. After the meal, on his return from almsround, he exited the city together with several mendicants and saw that B\u0101hiya had passed away. He said to the monks, \u201cMendicants, pick up B\u0101hiya\u2019s corpse. Having lifted it onto a cot and carried it, cremate it and build a monument. Mendicants, one of your spiritual companions has passed away.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d replied those mendicants. They did as the Buddha asked, then returned to the Buddha and said, \u201cSir, B\u0101hiya\u2019s corpse has been cremated and a monument built for him. Where has he been reborn in his next life?\u201d \u201cMendicants, B\u0101hiya was astute. He practiced in line with the teaching, and did not trouble me about the teachings. B\u0101hiya of the Bark Cloth has become fully quenched.\u201d Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cWhere water and earth, fire and air have no footing\u2014 there no star does shine, nor does the sun shed its light; there the moon glows not, yet no darkness is found. And when a sage, a brahmin, finds understanding through their own sagacity, then, from forms and formless, from pleasure and pain they are released.\u201d This too is a heartfelt saying that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"With B\u0101hiya","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":865}