{"id":"an8.53","title":"Brief Advice to Gotamī","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.53","title":"Brief Advice to Gotamī","units":[{"id":"an8.53:0","sourceIds":["an8.53:0.1","an8.53:0.2","an8.53:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.53\n6. Gotamīvagga\nSaṅkhittasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.53\n6. Gotamī\nBrief Advice to Gotamī"}},{"id":"an8.53:1","sourceIds":["an8.53:1.1","an8.53:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā vesāliyaṁ viharati mahāvane kūṭāgārasālāyaṁ.\nAtha kho mahāpajāpatī gotamī yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhitā kho sā mahāpajāpatī gotamī bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Vesālī, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof.\nThen Mahāpajāpati Gotamī went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to him:"}},{"id":"an8.53:2","sourceIds":["an8.53:2.1","an8.53:2.2","an8.53:2.3","an8.53:2.4","an8.53:2.5","an8.53:2.6","an8.53:2.7","an8.53:2.8","an8.53:2.9","an8.53:2.10","an8.53:2.11","an8.53:2.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sādhu me, bhante, bhagavā saṅkhittena dhammaṁ desetu, yamahaṁ bhagavato dhammaṁ sutvā ekā vūpakaṭṭhā appamattā ātāpinī pahitattā vihareyyan”ti.\n“Ye kho tvaṁ, gotami, dhamme jāneyyāsi:\n‘ime dhammā sarāgāya saṁvattanti, no virāgāya;\nsaṁyogāya saṁvattanti, no visaṁyogāya;\nācayāya saṁvattanti, no apacayāya;\nmahicchatāya saṁvattanti, no appicchatāya;\nasantuṭṭhiyā saṁvattanti, no santuṭṭhiyā;\nsaṅgaṇikāya saṁvattanti, no pavivekāya;\nkosajjāya saṁvattanti, no vīriyārambhāya;\ndubbharatāya saṁvattanti, no subharatāyā’ti,\nekaṁsena, gotami, dhāreyyāsi:\n‘neso dhammo, neso vinayo, netaṁ satthusāsanan’ti.","en":"“Sir, may the Buddha please teach me Dhamma in brief. When I’ve heard it, I’ll live alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute.”\n“Gotamī, you might know that certain things\nlead to passion, not dispassion;\nto yoking, not to unyoking;\nto accumulation, not dispersal;\nto more desires, not fewer;\nto lack of contentment, not contentment;\nto crowding, not seclusion;\nto laziness, not energy;\nto being burdensome, not being unburdensome.\nCategorically, you should remember these things as\nnot the teaching, not the training, and not the Teacher’s instructions."}},{"id":"an8.53:3","sourceIds":["an8.53:3.1","an8.53:3.2","an8.53:3.3","an8.53:3.4","an8.53:3.5","an8.53:3.6","an8.53:3.7","an8.53:3.8","an8.53:3.9","an8.53:3.10","an8.53:3.11","an8.53:3.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye ca kho tvaṁ, gotami, dhamme jāneyyāsi:\n‘ime dhammā virāgāya saṁvattanti, no sarāgāya;\nvisaṁyogāya saṁvattanti, no saṁyogāya;\napacayāya saṁvattanti, no ācayāya;\nappicchatāya saṁvattanti, no mahicchatāya;\nsantuṭṭhiyā saṁvattanti, no asantuṭṭhiyā;\npavivekāya saṁvattanti, no saṅgaṇikāya;\nvīriyārambhāya saṁvattanti, no kosajjāya;\nsubharatāya saṁvattanti, no dubbharatāyā’ti,\nekaṁsena, gotami, dhāreyyāsi:\n‘eso dhammo, eso vinayo, etaṁ satthusāsanan’”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"You might know that certain things\nlead to dispassion, not passion;\nto unyoking, not to yoking;\nto dispersal, not accumulation;\nto fewer desires, not more;\nto contentment, not lack of contentment;\nto seclusion, not crowding;\nto energy, not laziness;\nto being unburdensome, not being burdensome.\nCategorically, you should remember these things as\nthe teaching, the training, and the Teacher’s instructions.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.53/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."}