{"id":223404,"date":"2022-11-07T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=223404"},"modified":"2022-11-06T04:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T04:50:44","slug":"the-guest-house-agara-sutta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/the-guest-house-agara-sutta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guest House &#8211;> Agara Sutta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tiny-buddha-avatar-logo.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tiny-buddha-avatar-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tiny-buddha-avatar-logo.png 200w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tiny-buddha-avatar-logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south. People from the warrior caste may come and take lodgings there, and also Brahmans, middle class people and menials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similarly, O monks, there arise in this body various kinds of feelings; there arise pleasant feelings, painful feelings and neutral feelings; worldly feelings that are pleasant, painful or neutral, and unworldly (spiritual) feelings that are pleasant, painful and neutral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"CENTER\"><em>Translated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The purpose of this website is to propagate Buddha Dharma to the whole world. As we all know that this is the Dharma-Ending age, Buddhism is getting weaker whereas our worldly desires grow stronger. As said before by Shakyamuni Buddha (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buddhasutra.com\/files\/scripture_preached_by_the_buddha.htm\" >Scripture Preached by the Buddha on the Total Extinction of the Dharma<\/a>), in this Dharma-Ending age all Buddhist-Sutras will disappear slowly one by one, starting with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buddhasutra.com\/files\/shurangama_sutra.htm\" >Shurangama Sutra<\/a> and the last one to be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buddhasutra.com\/files\/infinite_life_sutra.htm\" >Amitabha Infinite Life Sutra<\/a>. After the first sutra is gone, the world will start to enter a chaotic time where evil deeds will become daily routines. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buddhasutra.com\/files\/agara_sutta.htm\" >Go to Original \u2013 buddhasutra.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[1198,1177,107,2062,1933,2057,805,2063,2237],"class_list":["post-223404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-buddhism","tag-inspirational","tag-religion","tag-shakyamuni-buddha","tag-siddhartha-gautama-buddha","tag-spiritual-science","tag-spirituality","tag-sutras","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}