{"id":"an9.15","title":"The Simile of the Boil","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an9.15","title":"The Simile of the Boil","units":[{"id":"an9.15:0","sourceIds":["an9.15:0.1","an9.15:0.2","an9.15:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.15\n2. Sīhanādavagga\nGaṇḍasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 9.15\n2. The Lion’s Roar\nThe Simile of the Boil"}},{"id":"an9.15:1","sourceIds":["an9.15:1.1","an9.15:1.2","an9.15:1.3","an9.15:1.4","an9.15:1.5","an9.15:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṇḍo anekavassagaṇiko.\nTassassu gaṇḍassa nava vaṇamukhāni nava abhedanamukhāni.\nTato yaṁ kiñci pagghareyya—\nasuciyeva pagghareyya, duggandhaṁyeva pagghareyya, jegucchiyaṁyeva pagghareyya;\nyaṁ kiñci pasaveyya—\nasuciyeva pasaveyya, duggandhaṁyeva pasaveyya, jegucchiyaṁyeva pasaveyya.","en":"“Mendicants, suppose there was a boil that was many years old.\nAnd that boil had nine orifices that were continually open wounds.\nWhatever oozed out of them\nwould be filthy, stinking, and disgusting.\nWhatever exuded from them\nwould be filthy, stinking, and disgusting."}},{"id":"an9.15:2","sourceIds":["an9.15:2.1","an9.15:2.2","an9.15:2.3","an9.15:2.4","an9.15:2.5","an9.15:2.6","an9.15:2.7","an9.15:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Gaṇḍoti kho, bhikkhave, imassetaṁ cātumahābhūtikassa kāyassa adhivacanaṁ mātāpettikasambhavassa odanakummāsūpacayassa aniccucchādanaparimaddanabhedanaviddhaṁsanadhammassa.\nTassassu gaṇḍassa nava vaṇamukhāni nava abhedanamukhāni.\nTato yaṁ kiñci paggharati—\nasuciyeva paggharati, duggandhaṁyeva paggharati, jegucchiyaṁyeva paggharati;\nyaṁ kiñci pasavati—\nasuciyeva pasavati, duggandhaṁyeva pasavati, jegucchiyaṁyeva pasavati.\nTasmātiha, bhikkhave, imasmiṁ kāye nibbindathā”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"‘Boil’ is a term for this body made up of the four principal states, produced by mother and father, built up from rice and porridge, liable to impermanence, to wearing away and erosion, to breaking up and destruction.\nAnd that boil has nine orifices that are continually open wounds.\nWhatever oozes out of them\nis filthy, stinking, and disgusting.\nWhatever exudes from them\nis filthy, stinking, and disgusting.\nSo, mendicants, have no illusion about this body.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.15/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."}