{"id":"an4.164","title":"Patient (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.164","title":"Patient (1st)","units":[{"id":"an4.164:0","sourceIds":["an4.164:0.1","an4.164:0.2","an4.164:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.164\n17. Paṭipadāvagga\nPaṭhamakhamasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.164\n17. Practice\nPatient (1st)"}},{"id":"an4.164:1","sourceIds":["an4.164:1.1","an4.164:1.2","an4.164:1.3","an4.164:1.4","an4.164:1.5","an4.164:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catasso imā, bhikkhave, paṭipadā.\nKatamā catasso?\nAkkhamā paṭipadā, khamā paṭipadā, damā paṭipadā, samā paṭipadā.\nKatamā ca, bhikkhave, akkhamā paṭipadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco akkosantaṁ paccakkosati, rosantaṁ paṭirosati, bhaṇḍantaṁ paṭibhaṇḍati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, akkhamā paṭipadā.","en":"“Mendicants, there are four ways of practice.\nWhat four?\nImpatient practice, patient practice, taming practice, and calming practice.\nAnd what’s the impatient practice?\nIt’s when someone abuses, annoys, or argues with you, and you abuse, annoy, or argue right back at them.\nThis is called the impatient practice."}},{"id":"an4.164:2","sourceIds":["an4.164:2.1","an4.164:2.2","an4.164:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, khamā paṭipadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco akkosantaṁ na paccakkosati, rosantaṁ na paṭirosati, bhaṇḍantaṁ na paṭibhaṇḍati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, khamā paṭipadā.","en":"And what’s the patient practice?\nIt’s when someone abuses, annoys, or argues with you, and you don’t abuse, annoy, or argue back at them.\nThis is called the patient practice."}},{"id":"an4.164:3","sourceIds":["an4.164:3.1","an4.164:3.2","an4.164:3.3","an4.164:3.4","an4.164:3.5","an4.164:3.6","an4.164:3.7","an4.164:3.8","an4.164:3.9","an4.164:3.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, damā paṭipadā?\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.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, damā paṭipadā.","en":"And what’s the taming practice?\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 taming practice."}},{"id":"an4.164:4","sourceIds":["an4.164:4.1","an4.164:4.2","an4.164:4.3","an4.164:4.4","an4.164:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, samā paṭipadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu uppannaṁ kāmavitakkaṁ nādhivāseti pajahati vinodeti sameti byantīkaroti anabhāvaṁ gameti; uppannaṁ byāpādavitakkaṁ …pe… uppannaṁ vihiṁsāvitakkaṁ … uppannuppanne pāpake akusale dhamme nādhivāseti pajahati vinodeti sameti byantīkaroti anabhāvaṁ gameti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, samā paṭipadā.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, catasso paṭipadā”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"And what’s the calming practice?\nIt’s when a mendicant doesn’t tolerate a sensual, malicious, or cruel thought. They don’t tolerate any bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen, but give them up, dispel them, calm them, eliminate them, and obliterate them.\nThis is called the calming practice.\nThese are the four ways of practice.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.164/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."}