{"id":"an5.73","title":"One Who Lives by the Teaching (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.73","title":"One Who Lives by the Teaching (1st)","units":[{"id":"an5.73:0","sourceIds":["an5.73:0.1","an5.73:0.2","an5.73:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.73\n8. Yodhājīvavagga\nPaṭhamadhammavihārīsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.73\n8. Warriors\nOne Who Lives by the Teaching (1st)"}},{"id":"an5.73:1","sourceIds":["an5.73:1.1","an5.73:1.2","an5.73:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘dhammavihārī, dhammavihārī’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, bhante, bhikkhu dhammavihārī hotī”ti?","en":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:\n“Sir, they speak of ‘one who lives by the teaching’.\nHow is a mendicant who lives by the teaching defined?”"}},{"id":"an5.73:2","sourceIds":["an5.73:2.1","an5.73:2.2","an5.73:2.3","an5.73:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idha, bhikkhu, bhikkhu dhammaṁ pariyāpuṇāti—\nsuttaṁ, geyyaṁ, veyyākaraṇaṁ, gāthaṁ, udānaṁ, itivuttakaṁ, jātakaṁ, abbhutadhammaṁ, vedallaṁ.\nSo tāya dhammapariyattiyā divasaṁ atināmeti, riñcati paṭisallānaṁ, nānuyuñjati ajjhattaṁ cetosamathaṁ.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu: ‘bhikkhu pariyattibahulo, no dhammavihārī’.","en":"“Mendicant, take a mendicant who memorizes the teaching—\nstatements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations.\nThey spend too much time studying that teaching. They neglect retreat, and are not committed to internal serenity of heart.\nThat mendicant is called one who studies a lot, not one who lives by the teaching."}},{"id":"an5.73:3","sourceIds":["an5.73:3.1","an5.73:3.2","an5.73:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhu, bhikkhu yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ vitthārena paresaṁ deseti.\nSo tāya dhammapaññattiyā divasaṁ atināmeti, riñcati paṭisallānaṁ, nānuyuñjati ajjhattaṁ cetosamathaṁ.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu: ‘bhikkhu paññattibahulo, no dhammavihārī’.","en":"Furthermore, a mendicant teaches Dhamma in detail to others as they learned and memorized it.\nThey spend too much time advocating that teaching. They neglect retreat, and are not committed to internal serenity of heart.\nThat mendicant is called one who advocates a lot, not one who lives by the teaching."}},{"id":"an5.73:4","sourceIds":["an5.73:4.1","an5.73:4.2","an5.73:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhu, bhikkhu yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ vitthārena sajjhāyaṁ karoti.\nSo tena sajjhāyena divasaṁ atināmeti, riñcati paṭisallānaṁ, nānuyuñjati ajjhattaṁ cetosamathaṁ.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu: ‘bhikkhu sajjhāyabahulo, no dhammavihārī’.","en":"Furthermore, a mendicant rehearses the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it.\nThey spend too much time reciting that teaching. They neglect retreat, and are not committed to internal serenity of heart.\nThat mendicant is called one who rehearses a lot, not one who lives by the teaching."}},{"id":"an5.73:5","sourceIds":["an5.73:5.1","an5.73:5.2","an5.73:5.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhu, bhikkhu yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ cetasā anuvitakketi anuvicāreti manasānupekkhati.\nSo tehi dhammavitakkehi divasaṁ atināmeti, riñcati paṭisallānaṁ, nānuyuñjati ajjhattaṁ cetosamathaṁ.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu: ‘bhikkhu vitakkabahulo, no dhammavihārī’.","en":"Furthermore, a mendicant thinks about and considers the teaching in their heart, examining it with the mind as they learned and memorized it.\nThey spend too much time thinking about that teaching. They neglect retreat, and are not committed to internal serenity of heart.\nThat mendicant is called one who thinks a lot, not one who lives by the teaching."}},{"id":"an5.73:6","sourceIds":["an5.73:6.1","an5.73:6.2","an5.73:6.3","an5.73:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idha, bhikkhu, bhikkhu dhammaṁ pariyāpuṇāti—\nsuttaṁ, geyyaṁ, veyyākaraṇaṁ, gāthaṁ, udānaṁ, itivuttakaṁ, jātakaṁ, abbhutadhammaṁ, vedallaṁ.\nSo tāya dhammapariyattiyā na divasaṁ atināmeti, nāpi riñcati paṭisallānaṁ, anuyuñjati ajjhattaṁ cetosamathaṁ.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhu, bhikkhu dhammavihārī hoti.","en":"Take a mendicant who memorizes the teaching—\nstatements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations.\nThey don’t spend too much time studying that teaching. They don’t neglect retreat, and they’re committed to internal serenity of heart.\nThat’s how a mendicant is one who lives by the teaching."}},{"id":"an5.73:7","sourceIds":["an5.73:7.1","an5.73:7.2","an5.73:7.3","an5.73:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Iti kho, bhikkhu, desito mayā pariyattibahulo, desito paññattibahulo, desito sajjhāyabahulo, desito vitakkabahulo, desito dhammavihārī.\nYaṁ kho, bhikkhu, satthārā karaṇīyaṁ sāvakānaṁ hitesinā anukampakena anukampaṁ upādāya, kataṁ vo taṁ mayā.\nEtāni, bhikkhu, rukkhamūlāni, etāni suññāgārāni. Jhāyatha, bhikkhu, mā pamādattha, mā pacchā vippaṭisārino ahuvattha. Ayaṁ vo amhākaṁ anusāsanī”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"So, mendicant, I’ve taught you the one who studies a lot, the one who advocates a lot, the one who rehearses a lot, the one who thinks a lot, and the one who lives by the teaching.\nOut of sympathy, I’ve done what a teacher should do who wants what’s best for their disciples.\nHere are these roots of trees, and here are these empty huts. Practice absorption, mendicant! Don’t be negligent! Don’t regret it later! This is my instruction to you.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.73/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."}