{"id":"an4.167","title":"Moggallāna’s Practice","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.167","title":"Moggallāna’s Practice","units":[{"id":"an4.167:0","sourceIds":["an4.167:0.1","an4.167:0.2","an4.167:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.167\n17. Paṭipadāvagga\nMahāmoggallānasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.167\n17. Practice\nMoggallāna’s Practice"}},{"id":"an4.167:1","sourceIds":["an4.167:1.1","an4.167:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā sāriputto yenāyasmā mahāmoggallāno tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā āyasmatā mahāmoggallānena saddhiṁ sammodi.\nSammodanīyaṁ kathaṁ sāraṇīyaṁ vītisāretvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā sāriputto āyasmantaṁ mahāmoggallānaṁ etadavoca:","en":"Then Venerable Sāriputta went up to Venerable Mahāmoggallāna, and exchanged greetings with him.\nWhen the greetings and polite conversation were over, Sāriputta sat down to one side and said to Mahāmoggallāna:"}},{"id":"an4.167:2","sourceIds":["an4.167:2.1","an4.167:2.2","an4.167:2.3","an4.167:2.4","an4.167:2.5","an4.167:2.6","an4.167:2.7","an4.167:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catasso imā, āvuso moggallāna, paṭipadā.\nKatamā catasso?\nDukkhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā,\ndukkhā paṭipadā khippābhiññā,\nsukhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā,\nsukhā paṭipadā khippābhiññā.\nImā kho, āvuso, catasso paṭipadā.\nImāsaṁ, āvuso, catunnaṁ paṭipadānaṁ katamaṁ te paṭipadaṁ āgamma anupādāya āsavehi cittaṁ vimuttan”ti?","en":"“Reverend Moggallāna, there are four ways of practice.\nWhat four?\nPainful practice with slow insight,\npainful practice with swift insight,\npleasant practice with slow insight, and\npleasant practice with swift insight.\nThese are the four ways of practice.\nWhich one of these four ways of practice did you rely on to free your mind from defilements by not grasping?”"}},{"id":"an4.167:3","sourceIds":["an4.167:3.1","an4.167:3.2","an4.167:3.3","an4.167:3.4","an4.167:3.5","an4.167:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catasso imā, āvuso sāriputta, paṭipadā.\nKatamā catasso?\nDukkhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā, dukkhā paṭipadā khippābhiññā, sukhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā, sukhā paṭipadā khippābhiññā.\nImā kho, āvuso, catasso paṭipadā.\nImāsaṁ, āvuso, catunnaṁ paṭipadānaṁ yāyaṁ paṭipadā dukkhā khippābhiññā, imaṁ me paṭipadaṁ āgamma anupādāya āsavehi cittaṁ vimuttan”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"“Reverend Sāriputta …\nI relied on the painful practice with swift insight to free my mind from defilements by not grasping.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.167/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."}