{"id":"an10.60","title":"With Girimānanda","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an10.60","title":"With Girimānanda","units":[{"id":"an10.60:0","sourceIds":["an10.60:0.1","an10.60:0.2","an10.60:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.60\n6. Sacittavagga\nGirimānandasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 10.60\n6. Your Own Mind\nWith Girimānanda"}},{"id":"an10.60:1","sourceIds":["an10.60:1.1","an10.60:1.2","an10.60:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmā girimānando ābādhiko hoti dukkhito bāḷhagilāno.\nAtha kho āyasmā ānando yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nNow at that time Venerable Girimānanda was sick, suffering, gravely ill.\nThen Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:"}},{"id":"an10.60:2","sourceIds":["an10.60:2.1","an10.60:2.2","an10.60:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Āyasmā, bhante, girimānando ābādhiko hoti dukkhito bāḷhagilāno.\nSādhu, bhante, bhagavā yenāyasmā girimānando tenupasaṅkamatu anukampaṁ upādāyā”ti.\n“Sace kho tvaṁ, ānanda, girimānandassa bhikkhuno dasa saññā bhāseyyāsi, ṭhānaṁ kho panetaṁ vijjati yaṁ girimānandassa bhikkhuno dasa saññā sutvā so ābādho ṭhānaso paṭippassambheyya.","en":"“Sir, Venerable Girimānanda is sick, suffering, gravely ill.\nSir, please go to Venerable Girimānanda out of sympathy.”\n“Ānanda, if you were to recite to the mendicant Girimānanda these ten perceptions, it’s possible that after hearing them his illness will die down on the spot."}},{"id":"an10.60:3","sourceIds":["an10.60:3.1","an10.60:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā dasa?\nAniccasaññā, anattasaññā, asubhasaññā, ādīnavasaññā, pahānasaññā, virāgasaññā, nirodhasaññā, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā, sabbasaṅkhāresu anicchāsaññā, ānāpānassati.","en":"What ten?\nThe perceptions of impermanence, not-self, ugliness, drawbacks, giving up, fading away, cessation, dissatisfaction with the whole world, impermanence of all conditions, and mindfulness of breathing."}},{"id":"an10.60:4","sourceIds":["an10.60:4.1","an10.60:4.2","an10.60:4.3","an10.60:4.4","an10.60:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, aniccasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā iti paṭisañcikkhati:\n‘rūpaṁ aniccaṁ, vedanā aniccā, saññā aniccā, saṅkhārā aniccā, viññāṇaṁ aniccan’ti.\nIti imesu pañcasu upādānakkhandhesu aniccānupassī viharati.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, aniccasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of impermanence?\nIt’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this:\n‘Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are impermanent.’\nAnd so they meditate observing impermanence in the five grasping aggregates.\nThis is called the perception of impermanence."}},{"id":"an10.60:5","sourceIds":["an10.60:5.1","an10.60:5.2","an10.60:5.3","an10.60:5.4","an10.60:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, anattasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā iti paṭisañcikkhati:\n‘cakkhu anattā, rūpā anattā, sotaṁ anattā, saddā anattā, ghānaṁ anattā, gandhā anattā, jivhā anattā, rasā anattā, kāyā anattā, phoṭṭhabbā anattā, mano anattā, dhammā anattā’ti.\nIti imesu chasu ajjhattikabāhiresu āyatanesu anattānupassī viharati.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, anattasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of not-self?\nIt’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this:\n‘The eye and sights, ear and sounds, nose and smells, tongue and tastes, body and touches, and mind and ideas are not-self.’\nAnd so they meditate observing not-self in the six interior and exterior sense fields.\nThis is called the perception of not-self."}},{"id":"an10.60:6","sourceIds":["an10.60:6.1","an10.60:6.2","an10.60:6.3","an10.60:6.4","an10.60:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, asubhasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu imameva kāyaṁ uddhaṁ pādatalā adho kesamatthakā tacapariyantaṁ pūraṁ nānāppakārassa asucino paccavekkhati:\n‘atthi imasmiṁ kāye kesā lomā nakhā dantā taco, maṁsaṁ nhāru aṭṭhi aṭṭhimiñjaṁ vakkaṁ, hadayaṁ yakanaṁ kilomakaṁ pihakaṁ papphāsaṁ, antaṁ antaguṇaṁ udariyaṁ karīsaṁ, pittaṁ semhaṁ pubbo lohitaṁ sedo medo, assu vasā kheḷo siṅghāṇikā lasikā muttan’ti.\nIti imasmiṁ kāye asubhānupassī viharati.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, asubhasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of ugliness?\nIt’s when a mendicant examines their own body up from the soles of the feet and down from the tips of the hairs, wrapped in skin and full of many kinds of filth.\n‘In this body there is head hair, body hair, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery, undigested food, feces, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, snot, synovial fluid, urine.’\nAnd so they meditate observing ugliness in this body.\nThis is called the perception of ugliness."}},{"id":"an10.60:7","sourceIds":["an10.60:7.1","an10.60:7.2","an10.60:7.3","an10.60:7.4","an10.60:7.5","an10.60:7.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, ādīnavasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā iti paṭisañcikkhati:\n‘bahudukkho kho ayaṁ kāyo bahuādīnavo. Iti imasmiṁ kāye vividhā ābādhā uppajjanti, seyyathidaṁ—\ncakkhurogo sotarogo ghānarogo jivhārogo kāyarogo sīsarogo kaṇṇarogo mukharogo dantarogo oṭṭharogo kāso sāso pināso ḍāho jaro kucchirogo mucchā pakkhandikā sūlā visūcikā kuṭṭhaṁ gaṇḍo kilāso soso apamāro daddu kaṇḍu kacchu nakhasā vitacchikā lohitaṁ pittaṁ madhumeho aṁsā piḷakā bhagandalā pittasamuṭṭhānā ābādhā semhasamuṭṭhānā ābādhā vātasamuṭṭhānā ābādhā sannipātikā ābādhā utupariṇāmajā ābādhā visamaparihārajā ābādhā opakkamikā ābādhā kammavipākajā ābādhā sītaṁ uṇhaṁ jighacchā pipāsā uccāro passāvo’ti.\nIti imasmiṁ kāye ādīnavānupassī viharati.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, ādīnavasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of drawbacks?\nIt’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this:\n‘This body has much suffering and many drawbacks. For this body is beset with many kinds of affliction, such as the following.\nDiseases of the eye, inner ear, nose, tongue, body, head, outer ear, mouth, teeth, and lips. Cough, asthma, catarrh, inflammation, fever, stomach ache, fainting, dysentery, gastric pain, cholera, leprosy, boils, eczema, tuberculosis, epilepsy, herpes, itch, scabs, smallpox, scabies, hemorrhage, diabetes, piles, pimples, and ulcers. Afflictions stemming from disorders of bile, phlegm, wind, or their conjunction. Afflictions caused by change in weather, by not taking care of yourself, by exertion, or as the result of past deeds. Cold, heat, hunger, thirst, defecation, and urination.’\nAnd so they meditate observing drawbacks in this body.\nThis is called the perception of drawbacks."}},{"id":"an10.60:8","sourceIds":["an10.60:8.1","an10.60:8.2","an10.60:8.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, pahānasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu uppannaṁ kāmavitakkaṁ nādhivāseti, pajahati, vinodeti, byantīkaroti, anabhāvaṁ gameti. Uppannaṁ byāpādavitakkaṁ nādhivāseti, pajahati, vinodeti, byantīkaroti, anabhāvaṁ gameti. Uppannaṁ vihiṁsāvitakkaṁ nādhivāseti, pajahati, vinodeti, byantīkaroti, anabhāvaṁ gameti. Uppannuppanne pāpake akusale dhamme nādhivāseti, pajahati, vinodeti, byantīkaroti, anabhāvaṁ gameti.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, pahānasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of giving up?\nIt’s when a mendicant doesn’t tolerate a sensual, malicious, or cruel thought that has arisen, and they don’t tolerate any bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen, but give them up, dispel them, eliminate them, and obliterate them.\nThis is called the perception of giving up."}},{"id":"an10.60:9","sourceIds":["an10.60:9.1","an10.60:9.2","an10.60:9.3","an10.60:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, virāgasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā iti paṭisañcikkhati:\n‘etaṁ santaṁ etaṁ paṇītaṁ yadidaṁ sabbasaṅkhārasamatho sabbūpadhippaṭinissaggo taṇhākkhayo virāgo nibbānan’ti.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, virāgasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of fading away?\nIt’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this:\n‘This is peaceful; this is sublime—that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, extinguishment.’\nThis is called the perception of fading away."}},{"id":"an10.60:10","sourceIds":["an10.60:10.1","an10.60:10.2","an10.60:10.3","an10.60:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, nirodhasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā iti paṭisañcikkhati:\n‘etaṁ santaṁ etaṁ paṇītaṁ yadidaṁ sabbasaṅkhārasamatho sabbūpadhippaṭinissaggo taṇhākkhayo nirodho nibbānan’ti.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, nirodhasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of cessation?\nIt’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this:\n‘This is peaceful; this is sublime—that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, cessation, extinguishment.’\nThis is called the perception of cessation."}},{"id":"an10.60:11","sourceIds":["an10.60:11.1","an10.60:11.2","an10.60:11.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu ye loke upādānā cetaso adhiṭṭhānābhinivesānusayā, te pajahanto viharati anupādiyanto.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of dissatisfaction with the whole world?\nIt’s when a mendicant lives giving up and not grasping on to the attraction and grasping to the world, the mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies.\nThis is called the perception of dissatisfaction with the whole world."}},{"id":"an10.60:12","sourceIds":["an10.60:12.1","an10.60:12.2","an10.60:12.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, sabbasaṅkhāresu anicchāsaññā?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu sabbasaṅkhāresu aṭṭīyati harāyati jigucchati.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, sabbasaṅkhāresu anicchāsaññā.","en":"And what is the perception of the impermanence of all conditions?\nIt’s when a mendicant is horrified, repelled, and disgusted with all conditions.\nThis is called the perception of the impermanence of all conditions."}},{"id":"an10.60:13","sourceIds":["an10.60:13.1","an10.60:13.2","an10.60:13.3","an10.60:13.4","an10.60:13.5","an10.60:13.6","an10.60:13.7","an10.60:13.8","an10.60:13.9","an10.60:13.10","an10.60:13.11","an10.60:13.12","an10.60:13.13","an10.60:13.14","an10.60:13.15","an10.60:13.16","an10.60:13.17","an10.60:13.18","an10.60:13.19","an10.60:13.20"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā cānanda, ānāpānassati?\nIdhānanda, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā nisīdati pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.\nSo satova assasati satova passasati.\nDīghaṁ vā assasanto ‘dīghaṁ assasāmī’ti pajānāti. Dīghaṁ vā passasanto ‘dīghaṁ passasāmī’ti pajānāti.\nRassaṁ vā assasanto ‘rassaṁ assasāmī’ti pajānāti. Rassaṁ vā passasanto ‘rassaṁ passasāmī’ti pajānāti.\n‘Sabbakāyapaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Sabbakāyapaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\n‘Passambhayaṁ kāyasaṅkhāraṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Passambhayaṁ kāyasaṅkhāraṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\n‘Pītipaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Pītipaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\n‘Sukhapaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Sukhapaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\n‘Cittasaṅkhārapaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Cittasaṅkhārapaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\n‘Passambhayaṁ cittasaṅkhāraṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Passambhayaṁ cittasaṅkhāraṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\n‘Cittapaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Cittapaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\nAbhippamodayaṁ cittaṁ …pe…\nsamādahaṁ cittaṁ …pe…\nvimocayaṁ cittaṁ …pe…\naniccānupassī …pe…\nvirāgānupassī …pe…\nnirodhānupassī …pe…\n‘paṭinissaggānupassī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati. ‘Paṭinissaggānupassī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\nAyaṁ vuccatānanda, ānāpānassati.","en":"And what is mindfulness of breathing?\nIt’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and brings mindfulness to the present.\nJust mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.\nBreathing in heavily they know: ‘I’m breathing in heavily.’ Breathing out heavily they know: ‘I’m breathing out heavily.’\nBreathing in lightly they know: ‘I’m breathing in lightly.’ Breathing out lightly they know: ‘I’m breathing out lightly.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing the whole body.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing the whole body.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in stilling the physical process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out stilling the physical process.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing rapture.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing rapture.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing bliss.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing bliss.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing the mental process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing the mental process.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in stilling the mental process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out stilling the mental process.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing the mind.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing the mind.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in gladdening the mind.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out gladdening the mind.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in immersing the mind in samādhi.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out immersing the mind in samādhi.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in freeing the mind.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out freeing the mind.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing impermanence.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing impermanence.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing fading away.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing fading away.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing cessation.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing cessation.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing letting go.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing letting go.’\nThis is called mindfulness of breathing."}},{"id":"an10.60:14","sourceIds":["an10.60:14.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sace kho tvaṁ, ānanda, girimānandassa bhikkhuno imā dasa saññā bhāseyyāsi, ṭhānaṁ kho panetaṁ vijjati yaṁ girimānandassa bhikkhuno imā dasa saññā sutvā so ābādho ṭhānaso paṭippassambheyyā”ti.","en":"If you were to recite to the mendicant Girimānanda these ten perceptions, it’s possible that after hearing them his illness will die down on the spot.”"}},{"id":"an10.60:15","sourceIds":["an10.60:15.1","an10.60:15.2","an10.60:15.3","an10.60:15.4","an10.60:15.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā ānando bhagavato santike imā dasa saññā uggahetvā yenāyasmā girimānando tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā āyasmato girimānandassa imā dasa saññā abhāsi.\nAtha kho āyasmato girimānandassa dasa saññā sutvā so ābādho ṭhānaso paṭippassambhi.\nVuṭṭhahi cāyasmā girimānando tamhā ābādhā. Tathā pahīno ca panāyasmato girimānandassa so ābādho ahosīti.\nDasamaṁ.\nSacittavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"Then Ānanda, having learned these ten perceptions from the Buddha himself, went to Girimānanda and recited them.\nThen after Girimānanda heard these ten perceptions his illness died down on the spot.\nAnd that’s how he recovered from that illness."}},{"id":"an10.60:16","sourceIds":["an10.60:16.0","an10.60:16.1","an10.60:16.2","an10.60:16.3","an10.60:16.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nSacittañca sāriputta,\nṭhiti ca samathena ca;\nParihāno ca dve saññā,\nmūlā pabbajitaṁ girīti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.60/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}