{"id":"an4.38","title":"Withdrawn","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.38","title":"Withdrawn","units":[{"id":"an4.38:0","sourceIds":["an4.38:0.1","an4.38:0.2","an4.38:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.38\n4. Cakkavagga\nPatilīnasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.38\n4. Situations\nWithdrawn"}},{"id":"an4.38:1","sourceIds":["an4.38:1.1","an4.38:1.2","an4.38:1.3","an4.38:1.4","an4.38:1.5","an4.38:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Panuṇṇapaccekasacco, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ‘samavayasaṭṭhesano passaddhakāyasaṅkhāro patilīno’ti vuccati.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu panuṇṇapaccekasacco hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno yāni tāni puthusamaṇabrāhmaṇānaṁ puthupaccekasaccāni, seyyathidaṁ—\nsassato lokoti vā, asassato lokoti vā, antavā lokoti vā, anantavā lokoti vā, taṁ jīvaṁ taṁ sarīranti vā, aññaṁ jīvaṁ aññaṁ sarīranti vā, hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇāti vā, na hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇāti vā, hoti ca na ca hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇāti vā, neva hoti na na hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇāti vā;\nsabbāni tāni nuṇṇāni honti panuṇṇāni cattāni vantāni muttāni pahīnāni paṭinissaṭṭhāni.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu panuṇṇapaccekasacco hoti.","en":"“Mendicants, a mendicant has cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth, has totally given up searching, has stilled the physical process, and is said to be ‘withdrawn’.\nAnd how has a mendicant cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth?\nDifferent ascetics and brahmins have different idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth. For example:\nthe cosmos is eternal, or not eternal, or finite, or infinite; the soul and the body are one and the same, or the soul is one thing, the body another; after death, a realized one still exists, or no longer exists, or both still exists and no longer exists, or neither still exists nor no longer exists.\nA mendicant has cast out, cast aside, thrown out, discarded, let go of, given up, and relinquished all these.\nThat’s how a mendicant has cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth."}},{"id":"an4.38:2","sourceIds":["an4.38:2.1","an4.38:2.2","an4.38:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu samavayasaṭṭhesano hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmesanā pahīnā hoti, bhavesanā pahīnā hoti, brahmacariyesanā paṭippassaddhā.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu samavayasaṭṭhesano hoti.","en":"And how has a mendicant totally given up searching?\nIt’s when they’ve given up searching for sensual pleasures, for continued existence, and for a spiritual path.\nThat’s how a mendicant has totally given up searching."}},{"id":"an4.38:3","sourceIds":["an4.38:3.1","an4.38:3.2","an4.38:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu passaddhakāyasaṅkhāro hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sukhassa ca pahānā dukkhassa ca pahānā pubbeva somanassadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamā adukkhamasukhaṁ upekkhāsatipārisuddhiṁ catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu passaddhakāyasaṅkhāro hoti.","en":"And how has a mendicant stilled the physical process?\nIt’s when, with the giving up of pleasure and pain and the disappearance of former happiness and sadness, they enter and remain in the fourth absorption, without pleasure or pain, with pure equanimity and mindfulness.\nThat’s how a mendicant has stilled the physical process."}},{"id":"an4.38:4","sourceIds":["an4.38:4.1","an4.38:4.2","an4.38:4.3","an4.38:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu patilīno hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno asmimāno pahīno hoti ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu patilīno hoti.\nPanuṇṇapaccekasacco, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ‘samavayasaṭṭhesano passaddhakāyasaṅkhāro patilīno’ti vuccatīti.","en":"And how is a mendicant withdrawn?\nIt’s when they’ve given up the conceit ‘I am’, cut it off at the root, made it like a palm stump, obliterated it, so it’s unable to arise in the future.\nThat’s how a mendicant is withdrawn.\nA mendicant has cast aside idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth, has totally given up searching, has stilled the physical process, and is said to be ‘withdrawn’."}},{"id":"an4.38:5","sourceIds":["an4.38:5.1","an4.38:5.2","an4.38:5.3","an4.38:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāmesanā bhavesanā,\nbrahmacariyesanā saha;\nIti saccaparāmāso,\ndiṭṭhiṭṭhānā samussayā.","en":"The search for sensual pleasures, for continued existence,\nand the search for a spiritual path;\nthe holding tight to the thought, ‘this is the truth’,\nand the mass of grounds for views—"}},{"id":"an4.38:6","sourceIds":["an4.38:6.1","an4.38:6.2","an4.38:6.3","an4.38:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbarāgavirattassa,\ntaṇhakkhayavimuttino;\nEsanā paṭinissaṭṭhā,\ndiṭṭhiṭṭhānā samūhatā.","en":"for one detached from all lusts,\nfreed by the ending of craving,\nthat searching has been relinquished,\nand those grounds for views eradicated."}},{"id":"an4.38:7","sourceIds":["an4.38:7.1","an4.38:7.2","an4.38:7.3","an4.38:7.4","an4.38:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sa ve santo sato bhikkhu,\npassaddho aparājito;\nMānābhisamayā buddho,\npatilīnoti vuccatī”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"That mendicant is peaceful and mindful,\ntranquil and undefeated.\nAnd when they’re awakened by comprehending conceit,\nthey’re called ‘withdrawn’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.38/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."}