{"id":8414,"date":"2023-06-12T06:28:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T23:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2023-12-13T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:15:51","slug":"sentient-beings-roaming-and-transmigrating-have-no-known-beginning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/?p=8414&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sentient beings roaming and transmigrating have no known beginning. (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"porto-content-box featured-boxes wpb_content_element \"><div class=\"featured-box featured-box-primary  align-left\"><div class=\"box-content\" style=\"\">[vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain.\u00a0There the Buddha addressed the mendicants,\u00a0\u201cMendicants!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied.\u00a0The Buddha said this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving.\u00a0For such a long time you have undergone suffering, agony, and disaster, swelling the cemeteries. \u00a0One person roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that?\u00a0Transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. \u00a0For such a long time you have undergone suffering, agony, and disaster, swelling the cemeteries.\u00a0This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is what the Buddha said.\u00a0Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the bones of a single person<br \/>\nfor a single eon were gathered up,<br \/>\nthey\u2019d make a pile the size of a mountain:<br \/>\nso said the great hermit.<\/p>\n<p>And this is declared to be<br \/>\nas huge as Mount Vepulla,<br \/>\nhigher than the Vulture\u2019s Peak<br \/>\nin the Magadhan mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>But then, with right understanding,<br \/>\na person sees the noble truths\u2014<br \/>\nsuffering, suffering\u2019s origin,<br \/>\nsuffering\u2019s transcendence,<br \/>\nand the noble eightfold path<br \/>\nthat leads to the stilling of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>After roaming on seven times at most,<br \/>\nthat person<br \/>\nmakes an end of suffering,\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/sn15.10\/en\/sujato\">https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/sn15.10\/en\/sujato<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[566,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-suttas","category-endless-transmigration"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}