Bhaddiya the Dwarf (1st)

ud7.1:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Sāriputta was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf in many ways with a Dhamma talk.

ud7.1:2 Then after being taught like this Bhaddiya’s mind was freed from defilements by not grasping.

ud7.1:3 The Buddha saw what had happened.

ud7.1:4 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.1:5 “Above, below, everywhere free, not contemplating ‘I am this’. Freed like this, he has crossed the flood not crossed before, so as to not wander again.”

Bhaddiya the Dwarf (2nd)

ud7.2:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Sāriputta was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf in even more ways with a Dhamma talk, thinking that he was still a trainee.

ud7.2:2 The Buddha saw what was happening.

ud7.2:3 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.2:4 “They’ve cut the cycle, gone to the wishless; the streams are dried, they flow no more. Cut, the cycle no longer spins. Just this is the end of suffering.”

Clinging (1st)

ud7.3:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time most of the people in Sāvatthī overly clung to sensual pleasures. Lustful, greedy, tied, infatuated, they lived completely addicted to sensual pleasures.

ud7.3:2 Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered Sāvatthī 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.

ud7.3:3 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.3:4 “Clinging to sensual pleasures, <j>to the chains of the senses, blind to the faults of the fetters, clinging to the chain of the fetters, they’ll never cross the flood so vast.”

Clinging (2nd)

ud7.4:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time most of the people in Sāvatthī clung to sensual pleasures. Lustful, greedy, tied, infatuated, attached, and blinded, they lived completely addicted to sensual pleasures.

ud7.4:2 Then the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for alms. He saw how attached the humans were.

ud7.4:3 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.4:4 “Blinded by sensual pleasures, wrapped in a net, they are smothered over by craving; bound by the kinsman of the negligent, like a fish caught in a funnel-net trap. They chase old age and death, like a suckling calf its mother.”

Another Discourse with Bhaddiya the Dwarf

ud7.5:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf, closely following several mendicants, approached the Buddha.

ud7.5:2 The Buddha saw Venerable Bhaddiya coming off in the distance—ugly, unsightly, deformed, and despised by most of the mendicants. The Buddha addressed the mendicants:

ud7.5:3 “Mendicants, do you see this monk coming—ugly, unsightly, deformed, and despised by most of the mendicants?” “Yes, sir.”

ud7.5:4 “That mendicant is very mighty and powerful. It’s not easy to find an attainment that he has not already attained. And he has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”

ud7.5:5 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.5:6 “With faultless parts and white canopy, the one-spoked chariot rolls on. See it come, untroubled, with stream cut, unbound.”

The Ending of Craving

ud7.6:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Koṇḍañña Who Understood was sitting not far from the Buddha, cross-legged, with his body straight, reviewing the freedom through the ending of craving.

ud7.6:2 The Buddha saw him meditating there.

ud7.6:3 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.6:4 “There is no root or ground or leaves for them, so where would creepers sprout from? That attentive one is released from bonds: who is worthy to criticize them? Even the angels praise them, and by God, too, they’re praised.”

The Ending of Proliferation

ud7.7:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the Buddha was sitting reviewing his own giving up of the judgments driven by the proliferation of perceptions.

ud7.7:2 Then, understanding his own giving up of the judgments driven by the proliferation of perceptions, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.7:3 “There is no proliferation remaining in those who have passed beyond the halter and cross-bar. The sage who lives without craving is never scorned by the world with its angels.”

Kaccāna

ud7.8:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Mahākaccāna was sitting not far from the Buddha, cross-legged, with his body straight and mindfulness of the body well-established internally on the present.

ud7.8:2 The Buddha saw him meditating there.

ud7.8:3 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.8:4 “Their mindfulness would always be established in the body, constant: ‘It might not be, and it might not be mine, It will not be, and it will not be mine.’ Meditating stage by stage on that, in time they’d cross over clinging.”

The Well

ud7.9:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was wandering in the land of the Mallas together with a large Saṅgha of mendicants when he arrived at a brahmin town of the Mallas named Thūṇa. The brahmins and householders of Thūṇa heard: “It seems the ascetic Gotama—a Sakyan, gone forth from a Sakyan family—while wandering in the land of the Mallas has arrived at Thūṇa, together with a large Saṅgha of mendicants.” They filled the well with grass and hay right to the top, thinking, “Don’t let these shavelings, these fake ascetics drink the water.”

ud7.9:2 And then the Buddha left the road, went to the root of a tree, and sat down on the seat spread out. When he was seated he said to Venerable Ānanda: “Go on then, Ānanda, fetch me some water from that well.”

ud7.9:3 When he said this, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha, “Just now, sir, the brahmins and householders of Thūṇa filled the well with grass and hay right to the top, thinking, ‘Don’t let these shavelings, these fake ascetics drink the water.’”

ud7.9:4 For a second time … For a third time, the Buddha said to Ānanda: “Go on then, Ānanda, fetch me some water from that well.” “Yes, sir,” replied Ānanda. Taking his bowl he went to the well. As he approached the well, all the grass and hay erupted out of the well-mouth. The water stood transparent, unclouded, and clear right up to the top, seeming to overflow.

ud7.9:5 Then Venerable Ānanda thought, “Oh lord, how incredible, how amazing! The Realized One has such psychic power and might! For when I approached this well, all the grass and hay erupted out of the well-mouth. The water stood transparent, unclouded, and clear right up to the top, seeming to overflow.” Gathering a bowl of drinking water he went back to the Buddha, and said to him, “It’s incredible, sir, it’s amazing! The Realized One has such psychic power and might! For when I approached that well, all the grass and hay erupted out of the well-mouth. The water stood transparent, unclouded, and clear right up to the top, seeming to overflow. Drink the water, Blessed One! Drink the water, Holy One!”

ud7.9:6 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.9:7 “What difference would a well make if water is there all the time? Having cut off craving at the root, who would go out on a quest?”

King Udena

ud7.10:1 So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Kosambī in Ghosita’s monastery. Now at that time, while King Udena was visiting a park, his royal compound burned down. Five hundred women died, with Queen Sāmāvatī at their head.

ud7.10:2 Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered Kosambī 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 had happened. They asked the Buddha, “Sir, where have those laywomen gone in the next life?”

ud7.10:3 “Among those laywomen there were stream-enterers, those close to the goal, and those who had attained it. None of those laywomen died without some fruit of the practice.”

ud7.10:4 Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

ud7.10:5 “The world is caught up in delusion, but is looked on as making sense. The fool caught up in attachment is surrounded by darkness. It seems as if eternal, but for one who sees, there is nothing.”