{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud3.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud3.6","id":"suttacentral_ud3.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud3.6/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Now at that time Venerable Pilindavaccha addressed the mendicants as \u201clowlifes\u201d. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, \u201cSir, Venerable Pilindavaccha addresses the mendicants as \u2018lowlifes\u2019.\u201d So the Buddha addressed one of the monks, \u201cPlease, monk, in my name tell the mendicant Pilindavaccha that the Teacher summons him.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d that monk replied. He went to Pilindavaccha and said to him, \u201cReverend Pilindavaccha, the Teacher summons you.\u201d \u201cYes, reverend,\u201d Pilindavaccha replied. He went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cIs it really true, Vaccha, that you addressed the mendicants as \u2018lowlifes\u2019?\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d he replied. Then, having applied his mind to Pilindavaccha\u2019s past lives, the Buddha said to the mendicants, \u201cMendicants, don\u2019t complain about the mendicant Vaccha. He doesn\u2019t address the mendicants as \u2018lowlifes\u2019 out of hate. For five hundred lives without interruption he was reborn in a brahmin family. For a long time, he has addressed people as \u2018lowlife\u2019. That\u2019s why he addresses the mendicants as \u2018lowlifes\u2019.\u201d Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cIn whom dwells no deceit or conceit, rid of greed, unselfish, <j>with no need for hope, with anger cast aside, quenched: they are a brahmin, an ascetic, a mendicant.\u201d","title":"With Pilindavaccha","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":241}