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# SN 5.12 · Bhadravudha's Questions (Bhadravudha-manava-puccha)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-5-12/
- Published: 2026-06-20T00:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:57:11.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 5.12. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
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\[Bhadravudha:\]

I entreat the one who is very intelligent, released, unperturbed — who has abandoned home, abandoned delight, abandoned resemblances, cut through craving, crossed over the flood. Having heard the Great One, they will leave — the many gathered from many lands, hero, in hope of your words. So tell them, please, how this Dhamma has been known to you. 

\[The Buddha:\]

Subdue craving & clinging — all — above, below, across, in between. \[1\] For whatever people cling to in the world, it's through that that Mara pursues them. So a monk, mindful, seeing these people clinging to entanglement as entangled in Death's realm, should cling to nothing in all the world, every world. 

# Note

1.

For Nd.II's discussion of the various meanings of the objects of craving "above, below, across, in between," see [Note 2 to Sn.V.4 (Mettagu's Question)](snp.5.04.than.html#fn-2).

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