{"id":"an8.56","title":"Danger","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.56","title":"Danger","units":[{"id":"an8.56:0","sourceIds":["an8.56:0.1","an8.56:0.2","an8.56:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.56\n6. Gotamīvagga\nBhayasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.56\n6. Gotamī\nDanger"}},{"id":"an8.56:1","sourceIds":["an8.56:1.1","an8.56:1.2","an8.56:1.3","an8.56:1.4","an8.56:1.5","an8.56:1.6","an8.56:1.7","an8.56:1.8","an8.56:1.9","an8.56:1.10","an8.56:1.11","an8.56:1.12","an8.56:1.13","an8.56:1.14","an8.56:1.15","an8.56:1.16","an8.56:1.17","an8.56:1.18"],"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‘Sallan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\n‘Saṅgo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\n‘Paṅko’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\n‘Gabbho’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\nKasmā ca, bhikkhave, ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ?\nYasmā ca kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\nKasmā ca, bhikkhave, ‘dukkhan’ti …pe…\n‘rogo’ti …\n‘gaṇḍo’ti …\n‘sallan’ti …\n‘saṅgo’ti …\n‘paṅko’ti …\n‘gabbho’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ?\nYasmā ca kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi gabbhā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi gabbhā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘gabbho’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures.\n‘Suffering’,\n‘disease’,\n‘boil’,\n‘dart’,\n‘chain’,\n‘bog’,\nand ‘womb’ are terms for sensual pleasures.\nAnd 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‘dart’,\n‘chain’,\n‘bog’,\nand ‘womb’ terms for sensual pleasures?\nSomeone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from wombs in this life or in lives to come. That is why ‘womb’ is a term for sensual pleasures."}},{"id":"an8.56:2","sourceIds":["an8.56:2.1","an8.56:2.2","an8.56:2.3","an8.56:2.4","an8.56:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhayaṁ dukkhañca rogo ca,\ngaṇḍo sallañca saṅgo ca;\nPaṅko gabbho ca ubhayaṁ,\nete kāmā pavuccanti;\nYattha satto puthujjano.","en":"Danger, suffering, and disease,\nboil, dart, and chain,\nand bogs and wombs both.\nThese describe the sensual pleasures\nto which ordinary people are attached."}},{"id":"an8.56:3","sourceIds":["an8.56:3.1","an8.56:3.2","an8.56:3.3","an8.56:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Otiṇṇo sātarūpena,\npuna gabbhāya gacchati;\nYato ca bhikkhu ātāpī,\nsampajaññaṁ na riccati.","en":"Swamped by things that seem pleasant,\nyou go to another womb.\nBut when a mendicant is keen,\nand doesn’t forget awareness,"}},{"id":"an8.56:4","sourceIds":["an8.56:4.1","an8.56:4.2","an8.56:4.3","an8.56:4.4","an8.56:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"So imaṁ palipathaṁ duggaṁ,\natikkamma tathāvidho;\nPajaṁ jātijarūpetaṁ,\nphandamānaṁ avekkhatī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"in this way that sort transcend\nthis grueling swamp.\nThey watch this population flounder,\nfallen into rebirth and old age.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.56/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."}