{"id":"iti101","title":"Easy to Find","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti101","title":"Easy to Find","units":[{"id":"iti101:0","sourceIds":["iti101:0.1","iti101:0.2","iti101:0.3","iti101:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 101\nCatukkanipāta\nBrāhmaṇadhammayāgavagga\nSulabhasutta","en":"So It Was Said 101\nThe Book of the Fours\nThe Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching\nEasy to Find"}},{"id":"iti101:1","sourceIds":["iti101:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti101:2","sourceIds":["iti101:2.1","iti101:2.2","iti101:2.3","iti101:2.4","iti101:2.5","iti101:2.6","iti101:2.7","iti101:2.8","iti101:2.9","iti101:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, appāni ceva sulabhāni ca, tāni ca anavajjāni.\nKatamāni cattāri?\nPaṁsukūlaṁ, bhikkhave, cīvarānaṁ appañca sulabhañca, tañca anavajjaṁ.\nPiṇḍiyālopo, bhikkhave, bhojanānaṁ appañca sulabhañca, tañca anavajjaṁ.\nRukkhamūlaṁ, bhikkhave, senāsanānaṁ appañca sulabhañca, tañca anavajjaṁ.\nPūtimuttaṁ, bhikkhave, bhesajjānaṁ appañca sulabhañca tañca anavajjaṁ.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri appāni ceva sulabhāni ca, tāni ca anavajjāni.\nYato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu appena ca tuṭṭho hoti sulabhena ca anavajjena ca, idamassāhaṁ aññataraṁ sāmaññaṅganti vadāmī”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“Mendicants, these four trifles are easy to find and are blameless.\nWhat four?\nRag-robes …\nA lump of almsfood …\nLodgings at the root of a tree …\nRancid urine as medicine …\nThese four trifles are easy to find and are blameless.\nWhen a mendicant is content with trifles that are easy to find, they have one of the factors of the ascetic life, I say.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti101:3","sourceIds":["iti101:3.1","iti101:3.2","iti101:3.3","iti101:3.4","iti101:3.5","iti101:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anavajjena tuṭṭhassa,\nappena sulabhena ca;\nNa senāsanamārabbha,\ncīvaraṁ pānabhojanaṁ;\nVighāto hoti cittassa,\ndisā nappaṭihaññati.","en":"“When one is content with what’s blameless,\ntrifling, and easy to find,\nthey don’t get distressed\nabout lodgings, robes,\nfood, and drink,\nand they’re not obstructed anywhere."}},{"id":"iti101:4","sourceIds":["iti101:4.1","iti101:4.2","iti101:4.3","iti101:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye cassa dhammā akkhātā,\nsāmaññassānulomikā;\nAdhiggahitā tuṭṭhassa,\nappamattassa bhikkhuno”ti.","en":"These qualities are said to be\nintegral to the ascetic life.\nThey’re mastered by a mendicant,\ncontent and diligent.”"}},{"id":"iti101:5","sourceIds":["iti101:5.1","iti101:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti101/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."}