{"id":"iti92","title":"The Corner of the Cloak","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti92","title":"The Corner of the Cloak","units":[{"id":"iti92:0","sourceIds":["iti92:0.1","iti92:0.2","iti92:0.3","iti92:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 92\nTikanipāta\nPañcamavagga\nSaṅghāṭikaṇṇasutta","en":"So It Was Said 92\nThe Book of the Threes\nChapter Five\nThe Corner of the Cloak"}},{"id":"iti92:1","sourceIds":["iti92:1.1"],"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":"iti92:2","sourceIds":["iti92:2.1","iti92:2.2","iti92:2.3","iti92:2.4","iti92:2.5","iti92:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Saṅghāṭikaṇṇe cepi, bhikkhave, bhikkhu gahetvā piṭṭhito piṭṭhito anubandho assa pāde pādaṁ nikkhipanto,\nso ca hoti abhijjhālu kāmesu tibbasārāgo byāpannacitto paduṭṭhamanasaṅkappo muṭṭhassati asampajāno asamāhito vibbhantacitto pākatindriyo;\natha kho so ārakāva mayhaṁ, ahañca tassa.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nDhammañhi so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu na passati.\nDhammaṁ apassanto na maṁ passati.","en":"“Mendicants, suppose a mendicant were to hold the corner of my cloak and follow behind me step by step.\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.\nThen they are far from me, and I from them.\nWhy is that?\nBecause that mendicant does not see the teaching.\nNot seeing the teaching, they do not see me."}},{"id":"iti92:3","sourceIds":["iti92:3.1","iti92:3.2","iti92:3.3","iti92:3.4","iti92:3.5","iti92:3.6","iti92:3.7","iti92:3.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yojanasate cepi so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vihareyya.\nSo ca hoti anabhijjhālu kāmesu na tibbasārāgo abyāpannacitto apaduṭṭhamanasaṅkappo upaṭṭhitassati sampajāno samāhito ekaggacitto saṁvutindriyo;\natha kho so santikeva mayhaṁ, ahañca tassa.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nDhammañhi so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu passati;\ndhammaṁ passanto maṁ passatī”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"Suppose a mendicant were to live a hundred leagues away.\nYet they do not covet sensual pleasures; they’re not infatuated, or full of ill will and malicious intent. They have established mindfulness, situational awareness and immersion, with unified mind and restrained faculties.\nThen they are close to me, and I to them.\nWhy is that?\nBecause that mendicant sees the teaching.\nSeeing the teaching, they see me.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti92:4","sourceIds":["iti92:4.1","iti92:4.2","iti92:4.3","iti92:4.4","iti92:4.5","iti92:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anubandhopi ce assa,\nmahiccho ca vighātavā;\nEjānugo anejassa,\nnibbutassa anibbuto;\nGiddho so vītagedhassa,\npassa yāvañca ārakā.","en":"“One full of desire and distress\nmay follow close behind,\nyet see how distant they are—\nthe stirred from the still,\nthe burning from the quenched,\nthe greedy from the greedless."}},{"id":"iti92:5","sourceIds":["iti92:5.1","iti92:5.2","iti92:5.3","iti92:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo ca dhammamabhiññāya,\ndhammamaññāya paṇḍito;\nRahadova nivāte ca,\nanejo vūpasammati.","en":"An astute person who has understood\nand directly known the teaching,\ngrows calm, as unperturbed\nas a lake free of wind."}},{"id":"iti92:6","sourceIds":["iti92:6.1","iti92:6.2","iti92:6.3","iti92:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Anejo so anejassa,\nnibbutassa ca nibbuto;\nAgiddho vītagedhassa,\npassa yāvañca santike”ti.","en":"See how close they are—\nthe still to the still,\nthe quenched to the quenched,\nthe greedless to the greedless.”"}},{"id":"iti92:7","sourceIds":["iti92:7.1","iti92:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti92/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."}