The Related Suttas Collection 1.19

2. The Garden of Delight

Little Hut

“Don’t you have a little hut? Don’t you have a little nest? Don’t you have any networks? Aren’t you free of shackles?”

“Indeed I have no little hut. Indeed I have no little nest. Indeed I have no networks. Indeed I’m free from shackles.”

“What do you think I call a little hut? What do I call a little nest? What do you think I call a network? And what do I call a shackle?”

“You call a mother a little hut; and a wife a little nest. You call children a network, and you tell me craving’s a shackle.”

“It’s good you have no little hut! It’s good you have no little nest! It’s good you have no networks! And good that you’re free from shackles.”