{
  "id": "the-open-door",
  "title": "The Open Door",
  "subtitle": "The Buddha’s Life in Verse",
  "version": "2026-09-28.1",
  "languageCodes": [
    "en"
  ],
  "languageNotes": {},
  "chapters": [
    {
      "id": "opening",
      "title": "Before the first verse",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "opening.1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Open Door follows the Buddha’s life as a continuous verse narrative: the child who received care, the seeker who left home, the awakening, the decision to teach, the community that grew, and the final parting. Its six Books invite slow reading. You may read a chapter aloud, or rest with a single stanza."
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "opening.2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "This is a new literary composition, not a newly discovered scripture. Most stanzas are original poetry drawing on Buddhist texts. Canonical excerpts are distinguished and credited where they appear. The poem’s images, reflections and words addressed to the reader belong to this edition; they are not additional sayings attributed to the Buddha. Verse numbers are reading references created for this book."
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "opening.3",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "The main journey follows the traditional sequence of the life. Encounters during the teaching years are gathered by theme, without claiming exact dates or relative order. The source notes remain available at each chapter’s end. For longer prayers and Pāli recitations, read the companion volume The Buddha’s Life and Path."
          },
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "The Buddha’s Life and Path · prayers and recitations",
              "url": "https://dhamma.ti-ratana.org/books/the-buddhas-life-and-path/read"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "1",
      "title": "Book I · 1. The child who was carried",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Before the roads filled with those who came to listen,\nbefore the groves were known by the teachings spoken there,\na child was held in the arms of others.\nThe one who would teach the world\nbegan his life receiving its care."
          },
          "id": "1.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Among the Sakyans the child was born,\nand Lumbini became a name remembered.\nGenerations would travel towards that place,\nbringing flowers, bringing their children,\nbringing the questions that had travelled with them."
          },
          "id": "1.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The old accounts surround his birth with wonder:\nseven steps, the turning of the heavens,\na promise spoken over the last becoming.\nFaith remembers the world made bright\nby a life whose meaning it has come to know."
          },
          "id": "1.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Asita looked upon the child and rejoiced.\nThen the seer wept:\nthe teaching would arise,\nand his own years would end before he heard it.\nJoy had opened a place for sorrow beside it."
          },
          "id": "1.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "So early in the story,\nthe heart meets what it cannot keep.\nA child has arrived;\nan old man knows he must depart.\nBetween them lies the teaching yet to come."
          },
          "id": "1.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Māyā’s life was brief after the birth.\nMahāpajāpatī gave the child her care,\nand the future teacher grew through kindness received.\nRemember her hands when the story grows vast.\nRemember that someone lifted him when he could not stand."
          },
          "id": "1.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "We honour the beginning by remembering dependence:\nthe food prepared, the body sheltered,\nthe watch kept beside another’s sleep.\nCompassion is already at work\nbefore anyone gives it a name."
          },
          "id": "1.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN123 · Incredible and Amazing",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn123/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "SNP3.11 · About Nālaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/snp3.11/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "AN8.51 · With Gotamī",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/an8.51/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2",
      "title": "Book I · 2. The sheltered years",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "There were lotus pools in his father’s household,\nfine cloth, fragrant sandalwood,\nrooms suited to the changing seasons.\nCare had gathered around the young Gotama\nlike shade around a growing tree."
          },
          "id": "2.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Yet outside the protection of the house,\nand within the bodies of those who protected it,\nage continued its patient work.\nNo gate could ask it to turn away.\nNo costly garment could make a life stand still."
          },
          "id": "2.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He considered the old person\nand recognised a condition shared.\nYouth was a season through which he was passing;\nthe bent back belonged to the same world\nas the body that still moved easily."
          },
          "id": "2.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He considered the sick person.\nHealth, so familiar that it seemed a possession,\nrested upon conditions he could not command.\nThe distance between the well and the unwell\nwas smaller than pride had imagined."
          },
          "id": "2.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He considered the one who had died.\nThe breath by which a person spoke a name\ncould end before another answer came.\nThe thought reached into his own life\nand unsettled its arrangements."
          },
          "id": "2.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The early teaching remembers these reflections.\nLater tellings give them the shape of encounters on a road.\nAcross the tellings, the question remains:\nwhat refuge can be found\nwhen everything we hold is liable to change?"
          },
          "id": "2.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The question did not fit within the shelter built for him.\nIt remained when the musicians had finished,\nwhen the good meal had been eaten,\nwhen the household had returned to its affairs.\nIt asked for a life in which to seek an answer."
          },
          "id": "2.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "AN3.39 · A Delicate Lifestyle",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/an3.39/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "3",
      "title": "Book I · 3. Those who remain at home",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The leaving is remembered as a going forth.\nHair and beard were cut;\nthe robe of a renunciant was put on.\nGotama entered the homeless life\nwhile he was young and his parents grieved."
          },
          "id": "3.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Let their grief remain in the telling.\nLet the household have its human weight:\nthe bonds of care, the hopes for another’s future,\nthe love that finds a familiar place empty\nand must learn how to live beside the emptiness."
          },
          "id": "3.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The road carried a seeker.\nThe house held those who loved him.\nOne life had changed its direction,\nand other lives felt the turning.\nRenunciation entered the world of relationship."
          },
          "id": "3.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He had recognised his own subjection\nto birth, to ageing, to sorrow and death.\nTo search only among things bound to the same conditions\nwould leave the deepest question waiting.\nHe sought the peace the teachings call the deathless."
          },
          "id": "3.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He could carry a bowl and receive what was given.\nHe could learn from those willing to teach.\nHe could place his strength within a discipline\nand discover where it led.\nThe answer was still beyond him."
          },
          "id": "3.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "We know the ending when we read the beginning.\nHe walked without that comfort of a finished book.\nBefore the name Buddha was his,\nthere were roads on which he was learning,\nand teachings whose limits he had yet to see."
          },
          "id": "3.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN26 · The Noble Quest",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn26/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "4",
      "title": "Book I · 4. The teachers on the road",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He came to Āḷāra Kālāma\nand asked to live within his teaching.\nHe listened, remembered and practised.\nWords became a discipline of attention;\nthe discipline opened into attainment."
          },
          "id": "4.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "His teacher offered him an equal place.\nHonour was within reach,\nand a community in which to remain.\nYet the ending of craving had not been found.\nThe unfinished question called him onward."
          },
          "id": "4.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He came to Uddaka Rāmaputta\nand learned of the attainment associated with Rāma.\nAgain his mind entered what had been described.\nAgain a place of leadership was offered.\nAgain the search had further to go."
          },
          "id": "4.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A traveller may be grateful for a shelter\nand still leave it when the morning comes.\nLearning had given him something real.\nHe carried that learning onward\nwithout mistaking it for the end of the road."
          },
          "id": "4.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "At Uruvelā he found a grove,\na river flowing beside accessible banks,\na village near enough for alms.\nHere were seclusion and the means to live.\nHere he would give himself to striving."
          },
          "id": "4.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The river ran beside the place of effort.\nIts banks would become part of a remembered landscape.\nFor now there was a seeker,\na body that could labour,\nand an understanding still being tested."
          },
          "id": "4.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN26 · The Noble Quest",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn26/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "5",
      "title": "Book II · 5. When striving became hunger",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He brought great resolve to the austerities.\nHe restrained, endured and ate little.\nFive companions attended him,\nwaiting for the knowledge\nthey hoped such effort would bring."
          },
          "id": "5.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The body grew thin.\nBones stood out beneath the skin;\nstrength drained from the limbs.\nThe account remembers suffering closely,\nas though it would let no reader call the cost small."
          },
          "id": "5.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Days of effort could be gathered into pride.\nPain could become a thing to display.\nBut suffering, however fiercely endured,\nhad not answered suffering.\nThe goal remained unreached."
          },
          "id": "5.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "At the limit of that road,\nhe allowed a question to disturb his method.\nWhat if the way had been mistaken?\nWhat if devotion to the search\nrequired a change in how the search was made?"
          },
          "id": "5.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "It takes resolve to continue.\nIt also takes resolve to see clearly\nwhen continuation would deepen an error.\nThe long labour was not erased.\nIts failure had become something he could understand."
          },
          "id": "5.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Five companions watched a body diminish.\nWithin that difficult history,\nanother possibility was about to return:\na memory of shade,\nand of a happiness that had harmed no one."
          },
          "id": "5.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN36 · The Longer Discourse With Saccaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "6",
      "title": "Book II · 6. The remembered shade",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He remembered sitting beneath a tree\nwhile his father was occupied with work.\nThere had been a stillness of attention,\na happiness born of seclusion,\nthe mind gathered without cruelty towards the body."
          },
          "id": "6.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The memory returned to a man weakened by hunger.\nIts gentleness had survived the years.\nHe considered whether such collectedness\ncould belong to the path of awakening.\nThe search made room for a different kind of strength."
          },
          "id": "6.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "‘I recall sitting in the cool shade of a black plum tree while my father the Sakyan was off working. Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, I entered and remained in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.\nCould that be the path to awakening?’\nStemming from that memory came the understanding:\n‘That is the path to awakening!’"
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "mn36",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "mn36:31"
          ],
          "attribution": "MN36 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN36 · The Longer Discourse With Saccaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "6.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He accepted solid food.\nThe body received what it needed,\nand strength began to return.\nHis companions saw indulgence\nwhere he had recognised a necessary turning."
          },
          "id": "6.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "They left disappointed.\nHe continued without their approval.\nThe road had become quieter,\nand the work ahead could no longer be measured\nby how much suffering others saw him bear."
          },
          "id": "6.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Here the life offers a tenderness worth remembering:\nnourishment received,\neffort made sustainable,\nthe possibility that a mind may become clear\nwithout making an enemy of the body that supports it."
          },
          "id": "6.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A memory of shade had opened a path.\nWhat had seemed too gentle to be important\nbecame a clue at the edge of exhaustion.\nHe took it seriously\nand began again."
          },
          "id": "6.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN36 · The Longer Discourse With Saccaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "7",
      "title": "Book II · 7. The long night",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "With strength restored, his attention settled.\nThe mind gathered and grew steady.\nThe movements that had troubled it became still,\nand a lucid balance opened\nthrough successive depths of collectedness."
          },
          "id": "7.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The discourses remember the night through three knowledges.\nFormer lives were recollected;\nthe passing and arising of beings were seen;\nthe ending of the corrupting influences was known.\nThus the tradition tells the awakening."
          },
          "id": "7.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "At the heart of that account is suffering understood,\nits arising understood,\nits cessation realised,\nand the way to cessation fulfilled.\nThe question of the road reached its answer."
          },
          "id": "7.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Craving could no longer bind the mind as before.\nIgnorance no longer governed the search.\nThere was knowledge of release.\nThe one who had sought awakening\nwas remembered now as the Awakened One."
          },
          "id": "7.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The earth of the story still held rivers and villages.\nPeople would still fall ill;\nthose who loved would still face separation.\nInto this same vulnerable world\na way of freedom had been found."
          },
          "id": "7.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "So let the night be remembered with reverence.\nLet its silence have room around it.\nA life had crossed the wilderness of its own search,\nand the teaching that would reach others\nhad its beginning in that release."
          },
          "id": "7.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN36 · The Longer Discourse With Saccaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "MN4 · Fear and Dread",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn4/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "8",
      "title": "Book II · 8. A bowl after awakening",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The monastic account remembers the Buddha\ndwelling near the trees of awakening,\ncontemplating the arising of suffering through conditions\nand its ending as those conditions cease.\nPeace had become the ground of understanding."
          },
          "id": "8.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then the story remembers food.\nTapussa and Bhallika, travelling merchants,\nbrought an offering to the newly awakened teacher.\nTheir part in the great account\nwas something they could carry in their hands."
          },
          "id": "8.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "They took refuge in the Buddha and the teaching.\nThe company of awakened disciples was still to come.\nA beginning can be small enough\nto fit around a bowl,\nand large enough to be remembered across centuries."
          },
          "id": "8.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Someone offers.\nSomeone receives.\nA spiritual life, however profound its understanding,\ncontinues among people\nwho can give one another what is needed."
          },
          "id": "8.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The reader who cannot travel far\nmay still know this part of the road:\nfood brought to another,\ntime freely given,\na kindness completed without an audience."
          },
          "id": "8.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The account moves onward towards the teaching.\nBefore the crowds and the long journeys,\nlet the merchants keep their place.\nThe world had already begun\nto answer awakening with generosity."
          },
          "id": "8.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "9",
      "title": "Book III · 9. The teaching that might have remained unspoken",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "At the banyan beside the Nerañjarā,\nthe Buddha considered the depth of what he had realised.\nThe Dhamma was subtle,\nhard to see for those delighted by clinging,\nhard to explain to those who cherished their chains."
          },
          "id": "9.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "How could a life devoted to grasping\nrecognise the peace of letting go?\nHow could the quiet ending of craving\nbe heard amid the wishes\nby which people arranged their days?"
          },
          "id": "9.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The discourse allows the hesitation to remain.\nIts teacher is not made into a figure\nwho speaks because the story requires a speech.\nHe considers whether others will understand.\nHis mind inclines towards remaining at ease."
          },
          "id": "9.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Around this moment, later listeners may feel\nthe weight of everything they have received:\na verse remembered at a funeral,\nthe refuge spoken with a child,\nthe teaching that steadied a difficult day."
          },
          "id": "9.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "All these lie ahead of the silence.\nAll the voices that will carry the Dhamma\nwait beyond a decision still to be made.\nThe telling pauses there,\nat the edge of a gift the world has not yet heard."
          },
          "id": "9.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then the scripture turns towards an appeal.\nAnother sees what may be lost.\nCompassion enters the scene as a request:\nlet the teaching be heard,\nfor some are ready to understand."
          },
          "id": "9.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "10",
      "title": "Book III · 10. Little dust",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The scripture names him Brahmā Sahampati.\nHe comes before the Buddha,\narranges his robe over one shoulder,\nkneels and raises his joined palms.\nHis request carries the need of those who have not heard."
          },
          "id": "10.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "“Sir, let the Blessed One teach the Dhamma! Let the Holy One teach the Dhamma!\nThere are beings with little dust in their eyes. They’re in decline because they haven’t heard the teaching.\nThere will be those who understand the teaching!”"
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "sn6.1",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "sn6.1:5"
          ],
          "attribution": "SN6.1 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "10.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "There is tenderness in the reason he gives.\nSomeone may be nearer to understanding\nthan the world has allowed them to discover.\nA little dust may lie upon the eye;\nthe capacity to see may still be there."
          },
          "id": "10.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The appeal makes room for a person overlooked:\nthe one who has never met a patient teacher,\nthe one whose question has been laughed away,\nthe one who has heard the language of religion\nand has yet to hear a teaching they can enter."
          },
          "id": "10.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "These are the people a present reader may remember.\nTheir names are our own addition to the ancient scene.\nThe scripture’s appeal is wider:\nbeings are suffering,\nand there will be those who understand."
          },
          "id": "10.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Rise, hero! Victor in battle, caravan leader,\nwander the world free of debt.\nLet the Blessed One teach the Dhamma!\nThere will be those who understand!”"
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "sn6.1",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "sn6.1:8"
          ],
          "attribution": "SN6.1 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "10.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The raised palms ask for a beginning.\nThey do not require the whole world to understand at once.\nA teaching may reach one person today,\nanother after years of living,\nanother through the kindness of someone it has changed."
          },
          "id": "10.7"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Let the appeal be heard slowly.\nLet there be room after it for the person who listens.\nSomewhere in that room\nmay be a reader who has never imagined\nthat the invitation could include them."
          },
          "id": "10.8",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "11",
      "title": "Book III · 11. The lotus pool",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha looked upon the world with compassion.\nHe saw difference:\nfaculties keen and weak,\nlives easier and harder to teach,\neyes with much dust and eyes with little."
          },
          "id": "11.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The discourse gives us a pool of lotuses.\nSome grow beneath the water;\nsome have reached its surface;\nsome rise clear,\nwith no water clinging to them."
          },
          "id": "11.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "It’s like a pool with blue water lilies, or pink or white lotuses. Some of them sprout and grow in the water without rising above it, thriving underwater. Some of them sprout and grow in the water reaching the water’s surface. And some of them sprout and grow in the water but rise up above the water and stand with no water clinging to them."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "sn6.1",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
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          ],
          "attribution": "SN6.1 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "11.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The image asks the eye to linger.\nThere is more than one depth in the same pool.\nWhat has not yet reached the surface\nbelongs to the living scene\nas surely as what has opened above it."
          },
          "id": "11.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "For the reader, this can become a way of patience.\nOne person understands through a brief encounter.\nAnother learns through repetition and time.\nA third begins to listen only after suffering\nhas made an old certainty impossible to keep."
          },
          "id": "11.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The poem offers that patience as a reflection.\nThe source tells us why the Buddha taught:\nhe saw beings capable of understanding.\nCompassion looked closely enough\nto recognise the possibility in them."
          },
          "id": "11.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "So the world was seen in its differences,\nand the possibility of teaching remained.\nThe silence beside the river\nwould open into speech.\nThe long journey towards others could begin."
          },
          "id": "11.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "12",
      "title": "Book III · 12. The open door",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then the Buddha answered Sahampati in verse.\nThe appeal had been heard;\nthe world had been surveyed with compassion.\nWhat follows in the scripture\nis the answer around which this book turns."
          },
          "id": "12.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "“Flung open are the doors to freedom from death!\nLet those with ears to hear commit to faith.\nThinking it would be troublesome, Divinity, I did not teach\nthe sophisticated, sublime Dhamma among mankind.”"
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "sn6.1",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "sn6.1:10"
          ],
          "attribution": "SN6.1 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "12.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The door is an image large enough\nto hold the gratitude of generations.\nSomeone heard a teaching and changed direction.\nSomeone found the courage to stop harming.\nSomeone learned to sit beside their grief."
          },
          "id": "12.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Those are fruits a reader may recognise in ordinary life.\nThe source’s promise reaches deeper:\nfreedom from the bondage of death and renewed becoming,\nthe peace for which the seeker had left home.\nThe open door keeps that goal before us."
          },
          "id": "12.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "To hear is a beginning.\nTo listen again is another beginning.\nTo practise what has been understood\nbrings the teaching out of the words\nand into the life that received them."
          },
          "id": "12.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Sahampati bowed and departed.\nThe teacher remained,\nand the roads of the world lay before him.\nHe would go to those who had helped him strive,\nand tell them what he had found."
          },
          "id": "12.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The story moves because compassion has moved within it.\nThe grove will give way to the road;\nthe road will lead to the deer park.\nThe door has opened.\nNow there must be footsteps."
          },
          "id": "12.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "13",
      "title": "Book III · 13. The five who listened",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "At Isipatana, the five saw Gotama approaching.\nThey remembered the food he had accepted\nand the austerities he had left behind.\nThey agreed to withhold honour.\nOld disappointment stood between them and the teacher."
          },
          "id": "13.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Yet as he drew near, they rose to receive him.\nA seat was prepared; water was brought.\nThe account allows distrust and care\nto occupy the same encounter.\nUnderstanding had still to be reached."
          },
          "id": "13.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He taught the middle way:\nview and intention,\nspeech, action and livelihood,\neffort, mindfulness and collectedness.\nA life would be trained through the whole of it."
          },
          "id": "13.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Suffering was to be understood.\nCraving was to be abandoned.\nCessation was to be realised.\nThe path was to be developed.\nEach truth entrusted the listener with work to do."
          },
          "id": "13.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "“Koṇḍañña has really understood! Koṇḍañña has really understood!”"
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "sn56.11",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "sn56.11:14"
          ],
          "attribution": "SN56.11 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN56.11 · Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "13.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "In that moment the teaching had reached another.\nThe joy of it is remembered by name:\nKoṇḍañña understood.\nA person who had once doubted\nhad become a person who could see."
          },
          "id": "13.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "There followed patient days of instruction.\nSome went for alms while others listened;\nthen they exchanged their tasks.\nThe bowls brought back from the village\nfed the small company of the path."
          },
          "id": "13.7"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "And they learned to release the claim of “mine”\nupon the changing body and mind.\nThe teacher’s freedom was no distant ornament.\nIt was the direction of their training,\nand, in the account, a freedom they too realised."
          },
          "id": "13.8",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN26 · The Noble Quest",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn26/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "SN56.11 · Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "SN22.59 · The Characteristic of Not-Self",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn22.59/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "14",
      "title": "Book III · 14. Good in the beginning",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Others came: Yasa and his companions,\nhouseholders who heard and gave,\npeople whose lives took a new direction.\nThe company grew,\nand the teaching was ready to travel beyond one grove."
          },
          "id": "14.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha sent the liberated disciples out.\nHis instruction joined freedom to compassion,\nand the happiness of the many\nto the work of those\nwho had themselves crossed beyond bondage."
          },
          "id": "14.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Go wandering, monks, for the benefit and happiness of humanity, out of compassion for the world, for the good, benefit, and happiness of gods and humans.\nYou should each go a different way."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "pli-tv-kd1",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "pli-tv-kd1:11.1"
          ],
          "attribution": "PLI-TV-KD1 · Bhikkhu Brahmāli · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            }
          ],
          "id": "14.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Proclaim the Teaching that is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, that has a true goal and is well articulated. Set out the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life.\nThere are beings with little dust in their eyes who are ruined because of not hearing the Teaching. There will be those who understand."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "pli-tv-kd1",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "pli-tv-kd1:11.1"
          ],
          "attribution": "PLI-TV-KD1 · Bhikkhu Brahmāli · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            }
          ],
          "id": "14.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Good in the beginning:\nmay the first encounter with the teaching\nbring clarity and room to breathe.\nMay a person hear that conduct can be changed,\nand find an honest place from which to start."
          },
          "id": "14.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Good in the middle:\nwhen enthusiasm has become daily effort,\nwhen old habits return,\nmay the path remain worthy of trust\nthrough the patient work it asks us to do."
          },
          "id": "14.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Good in the end:\nthe aim of release kept whole,\nthe ending of greed, hatred and delusion,\nthe peace towards which the teaching leads.\nMay beauty of language serve that freedom."
          },
          "id": "14.7"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "These wishes belong to the present poem.\nThe ancient instruction sent disciples down different roads.\nTheir paths would cross villages and generations.\nThe request made beside the river\nwas becoming a gift carried into the world."
          },
          "id": "14.8",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "15",
      "title": "Book IV · 15. An inheritance for Rāhula",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "When the Buddha returned among the Sakyans,\nRāhula’s mother sent the child towards him.\nThe boy followed his father,\nasking for his inheritance.\nThe story brought the road back to the household."
          },
          "id": "15.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The inheritance became a life of training.\nSāriputta received the task of giving him the going forth.\nSuddhodana’s grief was also heard,\nand parental permission became a rule\nfor children entering the community."
          },
          "id": "15.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Later the father taught the son through a mirror.\nLook before you act.\nLook while you act.\nLook again when the action is done.\nAttend to the harm it may bring to yourself or another."
          },
          "id": "15.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A mirror does not need a person to be flawless\nbefore it can show what is there.\nIt asks for the willingness to look.\nTruthfulness gives correction a place to begin;\nhonesty keeps learning possible."
          },
          "id": "15.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "So the child received a way of returning:\nfrom heedlessness to attention,\nfrom a mistake to acknowledgement,\nfrom harm towards restraint.\nHis famous father did not exempt him from that work."
          },
          "id": "15.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The reader may keep this inheritance too.\nBefore a message is sent,\nbefore an angry word is given a listener,\nthere may be one small interval\nin which the mirror can be lifted."
          },
          "id": "15.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "And after an error, the mirror still remains.\nThe past cannot be unsaid.\nThe next action can be considered.\nResponsibility gives the future\nsomething different to receive."
          },
          "id": "15.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            },
            {
              "text": "MN61 · Advice to Rāhula at Ambalaṭṭhika",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn61/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "16",
      "title": "Book IV · 16. The women at the threshold",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Mahāpajāpatī came seeking the homeless life.\nThe woman who had nourished the child\nnow sought the teaching of the man he had become.\nThe account remembers refusal,\nand the resolve with which she continued."
          },
          "id": "16.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "She and the Sakyan women reached Vesālī.\nĀnanda saw her distress and spoke for her request.\nCould women realise the fruits of the path?\nThe question entered the account plainly,\nand the answer was plain."
          },
          "id": "16.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "“Sir, is a lady able to realize the fruits of stream-entry, once-return, non-return, and perfection once she has gone forth?”\n“She is able, Ānanda.”"
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "an8.51",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "an8.51:9"
          ],
          "attribution": "AN8.51 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "AN8.51 · With Gotamī",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/an8.51/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "16.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The account goes on to impose unequal rules.\nLet the difficult part remain visible.\nReverence can bear an honest reading,\nand a poem need not smooth the old text\nuntil every struggle has disappeared."
          },
          "id": "16.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then let the women speak in their own right.\nTheir verses have crossed the centuries:\neffort and exhaustion,\ngrief and understanding,\nthe knowledge of a freedom realised."
          },
          "id": "16.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A community’s memory grows fuller\nwhen it can hear these voices.\nThe teaching was lived in their bodies,\ntested within their circumstances,\nand carried onwards through what they taught."
          },
          "id": "16.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Remember the foster mother at the beginning.\nRemember the practitioner who later asked to enter.\nCare given and freedom sought\nmeet within one life.\nBoth belong in the telling."
          },
          "id": "16.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "AN8.51 · With Gotamī",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/an8.51/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "SN5.2 · With Somā",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn5.2/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "THIG6.1 · Five Hundred Students of Paṭācārā",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/thig6.1/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "17",
      "title": "Book IV · 17. Water for the sick",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "There was a monk ill with dysentery,\nlying uncared for in his dwelling.\nThe others had left him without a nurse.\nHe could do little for them,\nand they had done little for him."
          },
          "id": "17.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha came with Ānanda.\nThey brought water.\nThey washed the sick man\nand lifted him onto a bed.\nThe teaching took the form of work done by hand."
          },
          "id": "17.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Before the assembly heard a correction,\nthe suffering person had received care.\nWater touched the neglected body.\nTwo people attended to what was needed.\nThe room was no longer a place of abandonment."
          },
          "id": "17.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "If you don’t nurse one another, who will?\nWhoever would nurse me should nurse one who is sick."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "pli-tv-kd8",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "pli-tv-kd8:26.3"
          ],
          "attribution": "PLI-TV-KD8 · Bhikkhu Brahmāli · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD8 · 1. The account of Jīvaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd8/en/brahmali"
            }
          ],
          "id": "17.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Let this passage have a place beside the radiant ones.\nLet it be read when devotion seeks an action.\nThere is a bed to clean,\na meal to bring,\na tired carer who may need another pair of hands."
          },
          "id": "17.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The person who can offer little in return\nstill belongs within the circle of care.\nIllness has not cancelled their claim\nto patience, dignity\nand the presence of another human being."
          },
          "id": "17.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "When the book closes,\nthe water in this story can remain with us:\nan ordinary thing,\nbrought at the necessary time,\nby someone who decided to help."
          },
          "id": "17.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD8 · 1. The account of Jīvaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd8/en/brahmali"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "18",
      "title": "Book IV · 18. A hand that lays the weapon down",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The road to Aṅgulimāla was feared.\nPeople warned the Buddha against it.\nA man who had killed many\nwas living there,\nand the harm he had done was real."
          },
          "id": "18.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The discourse tells an extraordinary encounter:\nthe pursuer could not catch the walking Buddha.\nHe called for the teacher to stop.\nThe answer turned the word towards violence,\nand towards the stopping his own life still required."
          },
          "id": "18.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "He laid down his weapons.\nThe life of training began.\nThe story remembers a terrible capacity to harm\nturning towards restraint,\nand, through practice, towards release."
          },
          "id": "18.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Those harmed are not erased by that turn.\nLater stones struck the former killer;\nhis bowl was broken and his body injured.\nThe account lets transformation and consequence\nremain within the same life."
          },
          "id": "18.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "For never is hatred\nlaid to rest by hate,\nit’s laid to rest by love:\nthis is an ancient teaching."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "dhp1-20",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "dhp5:1",
            "dhp5:2",
            "dhp5:3",
            "dhp5:4"
          ],
          "attribution": "DHP1-20 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "DHP1-20 · 1. Pairs",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "18.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "For a reader, goodwill can begin modestly:\nmay this person cease to harm.\nMay those in danger be protected.\nMay truth be spoken and responsibility taken.\nMay a better future have conditions in which to grow."
          },
          "id": "18.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The hand that has held a weapon\ncan learn to put it down.\nThe world still needs protection and repair.\nCompassion attends to that whole work,\nand does not hurry those who have been hurt."
          },
          "id": "18.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "MN86 · With Aṅgulimāla",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn86/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "DHP1-20 · 1. Pairs",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "19",
      "title": "Book IV · 19. The companions of the path",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Sāriputta first heard through Assaji.\nHe carried what he had understood to Moggallāna.\nOne encounter became another,\nand the path widened through companionship.\nThe teaching travelled between people who listened."
          },
          "id": "19.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Ānanda spoke of spiritual friendship.\nThe Buddha answered with an emphasis\nlarge enough to change the measure of it.\nCompanionship belonged at the heart\nof the life they were undertaking."
          },
          "id": "19.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Good friends, companions, and associates are the whole of the spiritual life."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "sn45.2",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
            "sn45.2:2"
          ],
          "attribution": "SN45.2 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN45.2 · Half the Spiritual Life",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn45.2/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "19.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A good companion can remind without humiliating,\nlisten without flattering,\nrejoice without rivalry,\nand speak when silence would leave a friend in harm.\nThese are ways a reader may practise the teaching’s direction."
          },
          "id": "19.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The ancient community also quarrelled.\nIt needed kindness in deed, speech and intention,\nthe sharing of what was received,\nethical discipline and understanding.\nConcord had conditions to be cultivated."
          },
          "id": "19.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "So friendship belongs among the serious matters.\nWho we hear, what we encourage,\nwhose distress we notice,\nwhose correction we can receive:\nthese help shape the road beneath our feet."
          },
          "id": "19.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May a reader find such companionship.\nMay a reader become such a companion.\nThe grove is made welcoming\nby those who leave a place\nfor another person to sit and learn."
          },
          "id": "19.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN45.2 · Half the Spiritual Life",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn45.2/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
            },
            {
              "text": "MN48 · The Mendicants of Kosambī",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/mn48/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "20",
      "title": "Book IV · 20. A grove made ready",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Anāthapiṇḍika’s gift became Jeta’s Grove,\na place named at the opening of many teachings.\nThe words have travelled far;\nthe gift remains quietly within them,\nholding open the place where people gathered."
          },
          "id": "20.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Visākhā remembered particular needs:\nfood for those who were sick,\nfood for those who nursed them,\nmedicines and practical necessities.\nGenerosity had learned to pay attention."
          },
          "id": "20.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Ambapālī offered a meal and her grove.\nThe final-journey account receives her gift with honour.\nA person came forward with what she could give,\nand the community received it.\nHer name remained within the story."
          },
          "id": "20.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Many other names have not reached us.\nStill, the journeys required food,\nthe dwellings required care,\nthe gatherings required people\nwho made them possible."
          },
          "id": "20.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "This verse remembers the unnamed as a reflection:\nthe person who prepares before others arrive,\nthe person who clears away after they leave,\nthe person whose steady service\nrarely becomes the subject of a speech."
          },
          "id": "20.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May such giving be met with gratitude.\nMay service leave room for rest.\nA community is sustained through many hands,\nand kindness grows more durable\nwhen those hands also receive care."
          },
          "id": "20.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD16 · 1. The allowance for dwellings",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd16/en/brahmali"
            },
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD8 · 1. The account of Jīvaka",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd8/en/brahmali"
            },
            {
              "text": "DN16 · The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "21",
      "title": "Book V · 21. The evening sun",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha sat with his back towards the evening sun.\nĀnanda attended to his limbs\nand saw the changes of age:\nthe skin, the posture,\nthe body’s altered strength."
          },
          "id": "21.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The teacher acknowledged what was visible.\nYouth was subject to ageing,\nhealth to sickness,\nlife to death.\nThe awakened body also grew old."
          },
          "id": "21.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "There is gentleness in this remembered scene:\nwarmth received,\nlimbs attended to,\na companion close enough\nto notice what time had changed."
          },
          "id": "21.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then another account brings news of Sāriputta’s death.\nHis bowl and robes are carried back.\nĀnanda is shaken by the loss\nof one who had counselled and encouraged him,\none who had never tired of teaching."
          },
          "id": "21.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha compares the loss\nto a great branch broken from a living tree.\nThe community has lost something precious.\nThe training in conduct, wisdom and release\nstill remains for those who are alive."
          },
          "id": "21.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Gratitude does not require us to hold a person forever.\nIt can become the way we carry forward\nwhat their care made possible.\nThe voice is absent;\nsomething learned from it may still guide an action."
          },
          "id": "21.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The final road draws nearer.\nThe teacher will need places to rest.\nCompanions will have more to learn about parting.\nThe evening sun continues to offer\nits ordinary warmth."
          },
          "id": "21.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN48.41 · Old Age",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn48.41/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "SN47.13 · With Cunda",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn47.13/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "22",
      "title": "Book V · 22. The gift of Cunda",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "At Pāvā, Cunda the smith prepared a meal.\nThe Buddha and the community received his offering.\nAfterwards came severe illness,\nand the journey continued\ntowards the sal grove at Kusinārā."
          },
          "id": "22.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The teacher needed rest along the road.\nĀnanda prepared a place for him.\nWater and a folded robe\nbelonged now among the important things.\nThe body was nearing its limit."
          },
          "id": "22.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Yet the Buddha also thought of Cunda.\nThe giver might be blamed;\nremorse might gather around his offering.\nĀnanda was to reassure him\nand preserve the honour of his generosity."
          },
          "id": "22.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "In the account, the meal before the final passing\nis honoured alongside the meal before awakening.\nThe giver is to receive comfort.\nThe approaching death is not to become\na grief laid at his door as guilt."
          },
          "id": "22.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "This kindness reaches beyond the teacher’s remaining hours.\nIt considers what people may say afterwards,\nwhose name may be wounded by their sorrow,\nand what reassurance should be carried\nbefore that sorrow begins its work."
          },
          "id": "22.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May we remember this part of the final journey:\nthe care taken with another person’s future,\nthe good intention protected from a careless accusation,\nthe mind that still made room for someone else\nwhen its own body was in pain."
          },
          "id": "22.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "DN16 · The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "23",
      "title": "Book V · 23. Ānanda’s tears",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "In the sal grove, Ānanda withdrew and wept.\nHe was still a learner,\nand the teacher who had cared for him\nwas about to pass away.\nYears of service could not prevent the parting."
          },
          "id": "23.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha called him back.\nThe final-passing discourse remembers an acknowledgement:\nlong service through loving actions,\nloving speech,\nand loving thought."
          },
          "id": "23.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The companion was seen.\nWhat he had given was remembered.\nThe teaching on separation\ndid not make gratitude unnecessary.\nThe last hours had room for both."
          },
          "id": "23.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Let this be part of how we speak to those who grieve.\nLet us remember the care they gave,\nthe nights kept, the journeys made,\nthe familiar duties\nthat love performed again and again."
          },
          "id": "23.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A teaching on impermanence can be spoken gently.\nIts truth need not become a demand\nthat another person stop feeling\nbefore we are willing\nto remain beside them."
          },
          "id": "23.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Ānanda would continue to serve through the final hours.\nLater tradition would remember his voice\nin the preservation of the discourses.\nThe one who wept beside the ending\nwould help others hear the teaching’s beginning."
          },
          "id": "23.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "DN16 · The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "24",
      "title": "Book V · 24. Beneath the sal trees",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha lay between the trees.\nThe account surrounds him with offerings and wonder,\nand places within that reverence\na practical instruction:\nthe Dhamma is most deeply honoured through practice."
          },
          "id": "24.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Subhadda came with questions.\nĀnanda tried to spare the exhausted teacher,\nbut the visitor was allowed to approach.\nEven there, another person’s understanding\ncould still become the work of the hour."
          },
          "id": "24.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha spoke of the path.\nSubhadda entered the community.\nThe story’s last disciple arrived\nwhile others were preparing to lose their teacher.\nAn ending still held a beginning within it."
          },
          "id": "24.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The community was told what would remain:\nthe teaching and discipline\nwould be its teacher after the passing.\nWhat had been learned\nwas entrusted to those who would live it."
          },
          "id": "24.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then the Buddha said to the mendicants:\n“Come now, mendicants, I say to you all:\n‘Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence.’”\nThese were the Realized One’s last words."
          },
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          "sourceWorkId": "dn16",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
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          "attribution": "DN16 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "DN16 · The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "24.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Then the account describes the meditative attainments\nand the final passing.\nSome were overcome by grief;\nothers remained composed in understanding.\nThe grove held the community in its differences."
          },
          "id": "24.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "No verse in this book can keep that body living.\nThe tenderness of remembrance has another task:\nto turn us towards the teaching while we can hear,\ntowards care while we can give it,\ntowards the path while there is time to walk."
          },
          "id": "24.7",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "DN16 · The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
            }
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        }
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    },
    {
      "id": "25",
      "title": "Book VI · 25. What was carried onwards",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Mallas honoured the body.\nRelics were shared,\nand places of remembrance arose.\nThe roads would carry pilgrims\nas they had once carried those seeking the living teacher."
          },
          "id": "25.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The monastic tradition remembers an assembly:\nUpāli recounting discipline,\nĀnanda recounting discourses,\ncompanions listening together\nto preserve what had been received."
          },
          "id": "25.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The teachings would pass through many lands and languages.\nThe history would be long,\nits communities varied,\nits acts of preservation repeated\nby people whose own lives would also end."
          },
          "id": "25.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "A voice becomes silent.\nAnother learns the words.\nA hand can no longer turn the page.\nAnother opens the book\nand gives the reading its attention."
          },
          "id": "25.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "So gratitude can become a form of keeping:\nkeeping a source faithfully,\nkeeping a promise to learn,\nkeeping a place welcoming\nfor someone who has yet to arrive."
          },
          "id": "25.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Three Refuges can be spoken again.\nThe precepts can be undertaken again.\nGoodwill can be cultivated again.\nThe life we remember has ended;\nthe practice is present work."
          },
          "id": "25.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "DN16 · The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD21 · 1. The origin story of the communal recitation",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd21/en/brahmali"
            },
            {
              "text": "KP1 · The Three Refuges",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/kp1/en/sujato"
            }
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    },
    {
      "id": "26",
      "title": "Book VI · 26. For the one opening this book",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "You may come to this reading with confidence.\nYou may come with questions.\nYou may have carried the word Buddha since childhood,\nor be meeting the teaching\nwith little more than a willingness to listen."
          },
          "id": "26.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "You may arrive tired.\nYou may have made a mistake you have not yet repaired.\nYou may be grieving someone\nwhose name still changes the room\nwhen another person says it."
          },
          "id": "26.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Let there be room to begin from where you are.\nRead a passage carefully.\nAsk what it means.\nSeek a teacher who can help you understand.\nAllow practice to grow through what is actually possible."
          },
          "id": "26.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The lotus image can accompany that beginning.\nThere are different depths in the pool.\nYou do not need to declare yourself awakened\nto take the teaching seriously,\nor to perform certainty in order to ask a question."
          },
          "id": "26.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Try a little less harm in the next encounter.\nTry an honest word spoken with care.\nTry giving attention to the person before you.\nLet these small acts be small,\nand let them be done."
          },
          "id": "26.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Buddha’s life is worthy of remembrance.\nYour own life is where remembrance can become conduct.\nThe next person who meets you\nmay never know which verse you read,\nand may still receive something good from it."
          },
          "id": "26.6",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "KP9 · The Discourse on Love",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/kp9/en/sujato"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "27",
      "title": "Book VI · 27. A blessing for the road",
      "units": [
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May this reading leave the heart more willing to care.\nMay what has been understood become useful.\nMay what remains uncertain\nbe met with patience,\ngood questions and honest learning."
          },
          "id": "27.1"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May those who feel unseen\nmeet someone who gives them attention.\nMay those who are afraid find protection.\nMay those who are ill receive care.\nMay those who care for others receive care in turn."
          },
          "id": "27.2"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May a child find a patient teacher.\nMay an older person find time and companionship.\nMay a stranger be met with dignity.\nMay a person who has caused harm\nturn towards restraint and repair."
          },
          "id": "27.3"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May our devotion make us attentive\nto the person who needs water,\nthe companion who needs rest,\nthe question that deserves an answer,\nand the work that kindness asks us to do."
          },
          "id": "27.4"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "Even as a mother would protect with her life\nher child, her only child,\nso too for all creatures\nunfold a boundless heart."
          },
          "canonical": true,
          "sourceWorkId": "kp9",
          "sourceUnitIds": [
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          "attribution": "KP9 · Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "KP9 · The Discourse on Love",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/kp9/en/sujato"
            }
          ],
          "id": "27.5"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "May there be good in our beginnings:\nan intention we can honour.\nMay there be good in our continuing:\npatience, courage and correction.\nMay our practice turn towards the ending of suffering."
          },
          "id": "27.6"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "For those who still have dust in their eyes,\nmay there be a chance to hear.\nFor those who hear,\nmay there be a chance to understand.\nFor those who understand, may there be the willingness to practise."
          },
          "id": "27.7"
        },
        {
          "kind": "verse",
          "text": {
            "en": "The book rests now in the reader’s hands.\nBeyond it, a day is waiting.\nMay we go into that day with care.\nMay what we have received\nbecome something good that another person receives."
          },
          "id": "27.8",
          "links": [
            {
              "text": "KP9 · The Discourse on Love",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/kp9/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "SN6.1 · The Appeal of the Divinity",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato"
            },
            {
              "text": "PLI-TV-KD1 · The great chapter",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali"
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            "en": "This literary edition draws chiefly on the Pāli discourses and Vinaya. It is an arrangement of episodes from several sources, not a translation of one ancient biography. Traditional wonders are presented as features of the received accounts. Interior imagery and the poem’s contemporary applications are literary reflection. Exact dates are not invented for the teaching-year episodes."
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          "text": {
            "en": "Quoted English passages retain the wording of Bhikkhu Sujato (discourses and verse) and Bhikkhu Brahmāli (Vinaya), via SuttaCentral, under CC0 1.0. Extracted passages may omit surrounding narrative; source work and segment identifiers are retained in the structured edition. Display line breaks do not add words. The translation says “good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end”; “beautiful” is another familiar way of expressing this phrase, but the quoted translation is preserved here."
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        },
        {
          "id": "sources.3",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "The appeal concerning beings with little dust in their eyes is spoken by Brahmā Sahampati in SN 6.1. The lotus image belongs to the Buddha’s compassionate survey of the world; the declaration opening the doors to freedom from death is the Buddha’s response. The mission to teach for the welfare of many appears in Vinaya Khandhaka 1. These voices are distinguished in the surrounding poetry."
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            "en": "Publication: Ti-Ratana Buddhist Society, 28 September 2026. First literary edition, 2026-09-28.1. Original poetry and editorial arrangement prepared with AI assistance at the commissioning user’s request. Source and production checks have been performed. Independent scholarly or Sangha review has not been completed; this edition does not claim such endorsement."
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          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Rights: the named canonical translations remain CC0 1.0. No exclusive rights are claimed over them. The new literary arrangement and poetry were prepared for the Ti-Ratana publication; the Society’s publication policy applies to their reuse. Ti-Ratana branding is separate. Corrections may be sent to info@ti-ratana.org with the edition and stanza reference."
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              "text": "Read the source",
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          "id": "source-dhp1-20",
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            "en": "DHP1-20 · 1. Pairs\nBhikkhu Sujato · CC0"
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              "text": "Read the source",
              "url": "https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/sujato"
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              "text": "Read the source",
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