{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud8.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud8.10","id":"suttacentral_ud8.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud8.10/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. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, when Dabba the Mallian rose into the air and, sitting cross-legged in midair, entered and withdrew from the fire element before becoming fully quenched, his body burning and combusting left neither ashes nor soot to be found. It\u2019s like when ghee or oil blaze and burn, and neither ashes nor soot are found. In the same way, when Dabba the Mallian rose into the air and, sitting cross-legged in midair, entered and withdrew from the fire element before becoming fully quenched, his body burning and combusting left neither ashes nor soot to be found.\u201d Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cJust as the glow of iron struck by a hammer in the fire of J\u0101taveda gradually dissipates, its destiny unknown; in the same way, for the rightly released, who have crossed the flood of sensual bonds, there is no destination to describe\u2014 they have found unshakable happiness.\u201d The Heartfelt Sayings are finished.","title":"Dabba (2nd)","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":193}