{"id":"an3.137","title":"A Hair Blanket","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.137","title":"A Hair Blanket","units":[{"id":"an3.137:0","sourceIds":["an3.137:0.1","an3.137:0.2","an3.137:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.137\n14. Yodhājīvavagga\nKesakambalasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.137\n14. A Warrior\nA Hair Blanket"}},{"id":"an3.137:1","sourceIds":["an3.137:1.1","an3.137:1.2","an3.137:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yāni kānici tantāvutānaṁ vatthānaṁ, kesakambalo tesaṁ paṭikiṭṭho akkhāyati.\nKesakambalo, bhikkhave, sīte sīto, uṇhe uṇho, dubbaṇṇo, duggandho, dukkhasamphasso.\nEvamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, yāni kānici puthusamaṇabrāhmaṇavādānaṁ makkhalivādo tesaṁ paṭikiṭṭho akkhāyati.","en":"“Mendicants, a hair blanket is said to be the worst kind of woven cloth.\nIt’s cold in the cold, hot in the heat, ugly, smelly, and unpleasant to touch.\nIn the same way, the teaching of the bamboo-staffed ascetic is said to be the worst of all the doctrines of the various ascetics and brahmins."}},{"id":"an3.137:2","sourceIds":["an3.137:2.1","an3.137:2.2","an3.137:2.3","an3.137:2.4","an3.137:2.5","an3.137:2.6","an3.137:2.7","an3.137:2.8","an3.137:2.9","an3.137:2.10","an3.137:2.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Makkhali, bhikkhave, moghapuriso evaṁvādī evaṁdiṭṭhi:\n‘natthi kammaṁ, natthi kiriyaṁ, natthi vīriyan’ti.\nYepi te, bhikkhave, ahesuṁ atītamaddhānaṁ arahanto sammāsambuddhā, tepi bhagavanto kammavādā ceva ahesuṁ kiriyavādā ca vīriyavādā ca.\nTepi, bhikkhave, makkhali moghapuriso paṭibāhati:\n‘natthi kammaṁ, natthi kiriyaṁ, natthi vīriyan’ti.\nYepi te, bhikkhave, bhavissanti anāgatamaddhānaṁ arahanto sammāsambuddhā, tepi bhagavanto kammavādā ceva bhavissanti kiriyavādā ca vīriyavādā ca.\nTepi, bhikkhave, makkhali moghapuriso paṭibāhati:\n‘natthi kammaṁ, natthi kiriyaṁ, natthi vīriyan’ti.\nAhampi, bhikkhave, etarahi arahaṁ sammāsambuddho kammavādo ceva kiriyavādo ca vīriyavādo ca.\nMampi, bhikkhave, makkhali moghapuriso paṭibāhati:\n‘natthi kammaṁ, natthi kiriyaṁ, natthi vīriyan’ti.","en":"The bamboo-staffed ascetic, that futile man, has this doctrine and view:\n‘There is no power in deeds, action, or energy.’\nThose who were perfected ones, fully awakened Buddhas in the past also taught the efficacy of deeds, action, and energy.\nBut the bamboo-staffed ascetic opposes them by saying:\n‘There is no power in deeds, action, or energy.’\nThose who will be perfected ones, fully awakened Buddhas in the future will also teach the efficacy of deeds, action, and energy.\nBut the bamboo-staffed ascetic opposes them by saying:\n‘There is no power in deeds, action, or energy.’\nI too, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha in the present, teach the efficacy of deeds, action, and energy.\nBut the bamboo-staffed ascetic opposes me by saying:\n‘There is no power in deeds, action, or energy.’"}},{"id":"an3.137:3","sourceIds":["an3.137:3.1","an3.137:3.2","an3.137:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, nadīmukhe khippaṁ uḍḍeyya bahūnaṁ macchānaṁ ahitāya dukkhāya anayāya byasanāya;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, makkhali moghapuriso manussakhippaṁ maññe loke uppanno bahūnaṁ sattānaṁ ahitāya dukkhāya anayāya byasanāyā”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"It’s like a trap set at the mouth of a river, which would bring harm, suffering, calamity, and disaster for many fish.\nIn the same way that futile man the bamboo-staffed ascetic is a trap for humans, it seems to me. He has come into the world for the harm, suffering, calamity, and disaster of many beings.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.137/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."}