{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud4.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud4.9","id":"suttacentral_ud4.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud4.9/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. Then as Venerable Upasena son of Va\u1e45gant\u0101 was in private retreat this thought came to his mind: \u201cI\u2019m so fortunate, so very fortunate! My Teacher is the Blessed One, perfected, a fully awakened Buddha. Well explained is the teaching and training in which I have gone forth from the lay life to homelessness. My spiritual companions are ethical and of good character. I have fulfilled the precepts. My mind is unified and serene. I am a perfected one who has ended the defilements. I am of great might and power. My life has been good, and my death will be good.\u201d Then, knowing that Venerable Upasena\u2019s train of thought, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cOne who has no guilt in life, nor grief at facing death: that attentive one who has seen the truth, grieves not among the grieving. For the mendicant with peaceful mind, who has cut off craving for continued existence, transmigration through births is finished, there\u2019ll be no more future lives for them.\u201d","title":"With Upasena","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":191}