Sutta Nipata
Sutta Nipata
The Sutta Nipaata is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka of the Paali Canon of Theravaada Buddhism Sutta Nipata is a collection of discourses of Buddha It is part of an early corpus of Buddhist literature Robert Chalmers explains that sutta means a consecutive thread of teaching and Hermann Oldenberg explained that nipata denotes a small collec
"Wanting a haven for myself, I saw nothing that wasn’t laid claim to. Seeing nothing in the end but competition, I felt discontent. And then I saw an arrow here, so very hard to see, embedded in the heart. Overcome by this arrow you run in all directions. But simply on pulling it out you don’t run, you don’t sink."
Sutta Nipata
