Early Buddhism
A Fingernail
Nakhasikhāsutta
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- Pāli
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- Early Buddhist Texts
- Tradition
- Early Buddhism
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A mendicant asks whether anything in the aggregates has even the tiniest bit of stability or permanence. The Buddha answers using the simile of a little dirt under his fingernail.
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