{"id":"an6.23","title":"Dangers","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an6.23","title":"Dangers","units":[{"id":"an6.23:0","sourceIds":["an6.23:0.1","an6.23:0.2","an6.23:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.23\n3. Anuttariyavagga\nBhayasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 6.23\n3. Unsurpassable\nDangers"}},{"id":"an6.23:1","sourceIds":["an6.23:1.1","an6.23:1.2","an6.23:1.3","an6.23:1.4","an6.23:1.5","an6.23:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Bhayan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ;\n‘dukkhan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ;\n‘rogo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ;\n‘gaṇḍo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ;\n‘saṅgo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ;\n‘paṅko’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.","en":"“‘Danger’, mendicants, is a term for sensual pleasures.\n‘Suffering’,\n‘disease’,\n‘boil’,\n‘chain’,\nand ‘bog’ are terms for sensual pleasures."}},{"id":"an6.23:2","sourceIds":["an6.23:2.1","an6.23:2.2","an6.23:2.3","an6.23:2.4","an6.23:2.5","an6.23:2.6","an6.23:2.7","an6.23:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kasmā ca, bhikkhave, ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ?\nKāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\nKasmā ca, bhikkhave, dukkhanti …pe…\nrogoti …\ngaṇḍoti …\nsaṅgoti …\npaṅkoti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ?\nKāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi paṅkā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi paṅkā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘paṅko’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacananti.","en":"And why is ‘danger’ a term for sensual pleasures?\nSomeone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from dangers in this life or in lives to come. That is why ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures.\nAnd why are ‘suffering’,\n‘disease’,\n‘boil’,\n‘chain’,\nand ‘bog’ terms for sensual pleasures?\nSomeone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from suffering, disease, boils, chains, or bogs in this life or in lives to come. That is why these are terms for sensual pleasures."}},{"id":"an6.23:3","sourceIds":["an6.23:3.1","an6.23:3.2","an6.23:3.3","an6.23:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhayaṁ dukkhaṁ rogo gaṇḍo,\nsaṅgo paṅko ca ubhayaṁ;\nEte kāmā pavuccanti,\nyattha satto puthujjano.","en":"Danger, suffering, disease, boils,\nand chains and bogs both.\nThese describe the sensual pleasures\nto which ordinary people are attached."}},{"id":"an6.23:4","sourceIds":["an6.23:4.1","an6.23:4.2","an6.23:4.3","an6.23:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Upādāne bhayaṁ disvā,\njātimaraṇasambhave;\nAnupādā vimuccanti,\njātimaraṇasaṅkhaye.","en":"Seeing the danger in grasping,\nthe origin of birth and death,\nthe unattached are freed\nwith the ending of birth and death."}},{"id":"an6.23:5","sourceIds":["an6.23:5.1","an6.23:5.2","an6.23:5.3","an6.23:5.4","an6.23:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Te khemappattā sukhino,\ndiṭṭhadhammābhinibbutā;\nSabbaverabhayātītā,\nsabbadukkhaṁ upaccagun”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"Happy, they’ve come to a safe place,\nquenched in this very life.\nThey’ve gone beyond all enmities and fears,\nand risen above all suffering.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.23/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."}