{"id":"iti91","title":"Lifestyle","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti91","title":"Lifestyle","units":[{"id":"iti91:0","sourceIds":["iti91:0.1","iti91:0.2","iti91:0.3","iti91:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 91\nTikanipāta\nPañcamavagga\nJīvikasutta","en":"So It Was Said 91\nThe Book of the Threes\nChapter Five\nLifestyle"}},{"id":"iti91:1","sourceIds":["iti91:1.1"],"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":"iti91:2","sourceIds":["iti91:2.1","iti91:2.2","iti91:2.3","iti91:2.4","iti91:2.5","iti91:2.6","iti91:2.7","iti91:2.8","iti91:2.9","iti91:2.10","iti91:2.11","iti91:2.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Antamidaṁ, bhikkhave, jīvikānaṁ yadidaṁ piṇḍolyaṁ.\nAbhisāpoyaṁ, bhikkhave, lokasmiṁ: ‘piṇḍolo vicarasi pattapāṇī’ti.\nTañca kho etaṁ, bhikkhave, kulaputtā upenti atthavasikā, atthavasaṁ paṭicca;\nneva rājābhinītā, na corābhinītā, na iṇaṭṭā, na bhayaṭṭā, na ājīvikāpakatā.\nApi ca kho ‘otiṇṇamhā jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi dukkhotiṇṇā dukkhaparetā,\nappeva nāma imassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa antakiriyā paññāyethā’ti.\nEvaṁ pabbajito cāyaṁ, bhikkhave, kulaputto.\nSo ca hoti abhijjhālu kāmesu tibbasārāgo, byāpannacitto paduṭṭhamanasaṅkappo, muṭṭhassati asampajāno asamāhito vibbhantacitto pākatindriyo.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, chavālātaṁ ubhatopadittaṁ majjhe gūthagataṁ neva gāme kaṭṭhatthaṁ pharati na araññe;\ntathūpamāhaṁ, bhikkhave, imaṁ puggalaṁ vadāmi gihibhogā parihīno sāmaññatthañca na paripūretī”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“This is the last of lifestyles, mendicants, namely relying on alms.\nThe world curses you: ‘You beggar, walking bowl in hand!’\nYet earnest gentlemen take it up for a good reason.\nNot to escape a summons by a king or a summons for a bandit, or because you were in debt or in fear, or in order to make a living.\nRather, because they think: ‘I’m swamped by rebirth, old age, and death; by sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. I’m swamped by suffering, mired in suffering.\nHopefully I can make an end to this entire mass of suffering.’\nThat’s how this gentleman has gone forth.\nYet they covet sensual pleasures; they’re infatuated, full of ill will and malicious intent. They are unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties.\nSuppose there was a firebrand for lighting a funeral pyre, burning at both ends, and smeared with dung in the middle. It couldn’t be used as timber either in the village or the wilderness.\nI say that individual is just like this. They’ve missed out on the pleasures of the lay life, and haven’t fulfilled the goal of the ascetic life.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti91:3","sourceIds":["iti91:3.1","iti91:3.2","iti91:3.3","iti91:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Gihibhogā parihīno,\nSāmaññatthañca dubbhago;\nParidhaṁsamāno pakireti,\nChavālātaṁva nassati.","en":"“They’ve left behind the pleasures of the lay life,\nand miss out on the goal of the ascetic life.\nRuining it, they throw it away,\nand perish like a funeral firebrand."}},{"id":"iti91:4","sourceIds":["iti91:4.1","iti91:4.2","iti91:4.3","iti91:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāsāvakaṇṭhā bahavo,\npāpadhammā asaññatā;\nPāpā pāpehi kammehi,\nnirayaṁ te upapajjare.","en":"Many who wear a scrap of ocher cloth\nare unrestrained and wicked.\nBeing wicked, they are reborn in hell\ndue to their bad deeds."}},{"id":"iti91:5","sourceIds":["iti91:5.1","iti91:5.2","iti91:5.3","iti91:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyo ayoguḷo bhutto,\ntatto aggisikhūpamo;\nYañce bhuñjeyya dussīlo,\nraṭṭhapiṇḍamasaññato”ti.","en":"It’d be better for the immoral and unrestrained\nto eat an iron ball,\nscorching, like a burning flame,\nthan to eat the nation’s alms.”"}},{"id":"iti91:6","sourceIds":["iti91:6.1","iti91:6.2"],"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/iti91/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."}