{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud6.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud6.6","id":"suttacentral_ud6.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud6.6/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 several ascetics, brahmins, and wanderers who followed various other religions were residing in S\u0101vatth\u012b, holding different views, beliefs, and opinions, relying on different views. There were some ascetics and brahmins who had this doctrine and view: \u201cThe self and the cosmos are eternal. This is the only truth, anything else is futile.\u201d Others held views such as the following, each regarding their own view as true and others as silly. \u201cThe self and the cosmos are not eternal.\u201d \u201cThe self and the cosmos are both eternal and not eternal.\u201d \u201cThe self and the cosmos are neither eternal nor not eternal.\u201d \u201cThe self and the cosmos are made by oneself.\u201d \u201cThe self and the cosmos are made by another.\u201d \u201cThe self and the cosmos are made by both oneself and another.\u201d \u201cThe self and the cosmos have arisen anomalously, not made by oneself or another.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are eternal, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are not eternal, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are both eternal and not eternal, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are neither eternal nor not eternal, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are made by oneself, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are made by another, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain are made by both oneself and another, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d \u201cPleasure and pain have arisen anomalously, not made by oneself or another, and the self and the cosmos.\u201d They were fighting, quarreling, and disputing, continually wounding each other with barbed words: \u201cSuch is Truth, such is not Truth! Such is not Truth, such is Truth!\u201d Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. Then, after the meal, when they returned from almsround, they went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what was happening. Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cFolk are fixated on the I-maker, which is tied up with the other-maker. There are some who do not realize this, they do not see the dart. But when they see this dart, they do not think, \u2018I make it\u2019, nor \u2018another makes it\u2019. These folk are caught up in conceit, tied by conceit, shackled by conceit. Vehemently defending their views, they don\u2019t escape transmigration.\u201d","title":"Followers of Various Other Religions (3rd)","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":429}