{"id":8417,"date":"2023-06-12T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2023-12-13T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:15:22","slug":"sentient-beings-roaming-and-transmigrating-have-no-known-beginning-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/?p=8417&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sentient beings roaming and transmigrating have no known beginning. (1)"},"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 S\u0101vatth\u012b.<\/p>\n<p>Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha \u2026 and asked him,\u00a0\u201cSir, how long is an eon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMendicant, an eon is long.\u00a0It\u2019s not easy to calculate how many years, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of years it lasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sir, is it possible to give a simile?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible,\u201d said the Buddha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuppose there was an iron city, a league long, a league wide, and a league high, full of mustard seeds pressed into balls.\u00a0And as each century passed someone would remove a single mustard seed.\u00a0By this means the huge heap of mustard seeds would be used up before the eon comes to an end.\u00a0That\u2019s how long an eon is.\u00a0And we\u2019ve transmigrated through many such eons, many hundreds, many thousands, many hundreds of thousands.<\/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<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/sn15.6\/en\/sujato\">https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/sn15.6\/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-8417","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\/8417","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=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}