{"id":"an4.14","title":"Restraint","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.14","title":"Restraint","units":[{"id":"an4.14:0","sourceIds":["an4.14:0.1","an4.14:0.2","an4.14:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.14\n2. Caravagga\nSaṁvarasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.14\n2. Walking\nRestraint"}},{"id":"an4.14:1","sourceIds":["an4.14:1.1","an4.14:1.2","an4.14:1.3","an4.14:1.4","an4.14:1.5","an4.14:1.6","an4.14:1.7","an4.14:1.8","an4.14:1.9","an4.14:1.10","an4.14:1.11","an4.14:1.12","an4.14:1.13"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, padhānāni.\nKatamāni cattāri?\nSaṁvarappadhānaṁ, pahānappadhānaṁ, bhāvanāppadhānaṁ, anurakkhaṇāppadhānaṁ.\nKatamañca, bhikkhave, saṁvarappadhānaṁ?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cakkhunā rūpaṁ disvā na nimittaggāhī hoti nānubyañjanaggāhī.\nYatvādhikaraṇamenaṁ cakkhundriyaṁ asaṁvutaṁ viharantaṁ abhijjhādomanassā pāpakā akusalā dhammā anvāssaveyyuṁ, tassa saṁvarāya paṭipajjati, rakkhati cakkhundriyaṁ, cakkhundriye saṁvaraṁ āpajjati.\nSotena saddaṁ sutvā …\nghānena gandhaṁ ghāyitvā …\njivhāya rasaṁ sāyitvā …\nkāyena phoṭṭhabbaṁ phusitvā …\nmanasā dhammaṁ viññāya na nimittaggāhī hoti nānubyañjanaggāhī,\nyatvādhikaraṇamenaṁ manindriyaṁ asaṁvutaṁ viharantaṁ abhijjhādomanassā pāpakā akusalā dhammā anvāssaveyyuṁ, tassa saṁvarāya paṭipajjati, rakkhati manindriyaṁ, manindriye saṁvaraṁ āpajjati.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, saṁvarappadhānaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these four efforts.\nWhat four?\nThe efforts to restrain, to give up, to develop, and to preserve.\nAnd what, mendicants, is the effort to restrain?\nWhen a mendicant sees a sight with their eyes, they don’t get caught up in the features and details.\nIf the faculty of sight were left unrestrained, bad unskillful qualities of covetousness and displeasure would become overwhelming. For this reason, they practice restraint, protecting the faculty of sight, and achieving its restraint.\nWhen they hear a sound with their ears …\nWhen they smell an odor with their nose …\nWhen they taste a flavor with their tongue …\nWhen they feel a touch with their body …\nWhen they know an idea with their mind, they don’t get caught up in the features and details.\nIf the faculty of mind were left unrestrained, bad unskillful qualities of covetousness and displeasure would become overwhelming. For this reason, they practice restraint, protecting the faculty of mind, and achieving its restraint.\nThis is called the effort to restrain."}},{"id":"an4.14:2","sourceIds":["an4.14:2.1","an4.14:2.2","an4.14:2.3","an4.14:2.4","an4.14:2.5","an4.14:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, bhikkhave, pahānappadhānaṁ?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu uppannaṁ kāmavitakkaṁ nādhivāseti pajahati vinodeti byantīkaroti anabhāvaṁ gameti;\nuppannaṁ byāpādavitakkaṁ …pe…\nuppannaṁ vihiṁsāvitakkaṁ …pe…\nuppannuppanne pāpake akusale dhamme nādhivāseti pajahati vinodeti byantīkaroti anabhāvaṁ gameti.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pahānappadhānaṁ.","en":"And what, mendicants, is the effort to give up?\nIt’s when a mendicant doesn’t tolerate a sensual,\nmalicious,\nor cruel thought that’s arisen, but gives it up, dispels it, eliminates it, and obliterates it.\nThey 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 effort to give up."}},{"id":"an4.14:3","sourceIds":["an4.14:3.1","an4.14:3.2","an4.14:3.3","an4.14:3.4","an4.14:3.5","an4.14:3.6","an4.14:3.7","an4.14:3.8","an4.14:3.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, bhikkhave, bhāvanāppadhānaṁ?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu satisambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ,\ndhammavicayasambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti …\nvīriyasambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti …\npītisambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti …\npassaddhisambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti …\nsamādhisambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti …\nupekkhāsambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhāvanāppadhānaṁ.","en":"And what, mendicants, is the effort to develop?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops the awakening factors of mindfulness,\ninvestigation of principles,\nenergy,\nrapture,\ntranquility,\nimmersion,\nand equanimity, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.\nThis is called the effort to develop."}},{"id":"an4.14:4","sourceIds":["an4.14:4.1","an4.14:4.2","an4.14:4.3","an4.14:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, bhikkhave, anurakkhaṇāppadhānaṁ?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu uppannaṁ bhaddakaṁ samādhinimittaṁ anurakkhati aṭṭhikasaññaṁ puḷavakasaññaṁ vinīlakasaññaṁ vicchiddakasaññaṁ uddhumātakasaññaṁ.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, anurakkhaṇāppadhānaṁ.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri padhānānīti.","en":"And what, mendicants, is the effort to preserve?\nIt’s when a mendicant preserves a meditation subject that’s a fine basis of immersion: the perception of a skeleton, a worm-infested corpse, a livid corpse, a split open corpse, or a bloated corpse.\nThis is called the effort to preserve.\nThese are the four efforts."}},{"id":"an4.14:5","sourceIds":["an4.14:5.1","an4.14:5.2","an4.14:5.3","an4.14:5.4","an4.14:5.5","an4.14:5.6","an4.14:5.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁvaro ca pahānañca,\nbhāvanā anurakkhaṇā;\nEte padhānā cattāro,\ndesitādiccabandhunā;\nYehi bhikkhu idhātāpī,\nkhayaṁ dukkhassa pāpuṇe”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"Restraint and giving up,\ndevelopment and preservation:\nthese are the four efforts\ntaught by the Kinsman of the Sun.\nAny mendicant who keenly applies these\nmay attain the ending of suffering.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.14/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."}