{"id":"sn1.17","title":"Hard to Do","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.17","title":"Hard to Do","units":[{"id":"sn1.17:0","sourceIds":["sn1.17:0.1","sn1.17:0.2","sn1.17:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.17\n2. Nandanavagga\nDukkarasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.17\n2. The Garden of Delight\nHard to Do"}},{"id":"sn1.17:1","sourceIds":["sn1.17:1.1","sn1.17:1.2","sn1.17:1.3","sn1.17:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dukkaraṁ duttitikkhañca,\nabyattena ca sāmaññaṁ;\nBahūhi tattha sambādhā,\nyattha bālo visīdatī”ti.","en":"“Hard to do, hard to endure,\nis the ascetic life for the inept,\nfor it has many narrow passes\nwhere the fool founders.”"}},{"id":"sn1.17:2","sourceIds":["sn1.17:2.1","sn1.17:2.2","sn1.17:2.3","sn1.17:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katihaṁ careyya sāmaññaṁ,\ncittañce na nivāraye;\nPade pade visīdeyya,\nsaṅkappānaṁ vasānugoti.","en":"“How many days could an ascetic live\nwithout controlling the mind?\nThey’d founder with each step,\nunder the sway of thoughts."}},{"id":"sn1.17:3","sourceIds":["sn1.17:3.1","sn1.17:3.2","sn1.17:3.3","sn1.17:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kummova aṅgāni sake kapāle,\nSamodahaṁ bhikkhu manovitakke;\nAnissito aññamaheṭhayāno,\nParinibbuto nūpavadeyya kañcī”ti.","en":"A mendicant should collect their thoughts\nas a tortoise draws its limbs into its shell.\nIndependent, not disturbing others,\nquenched: they wouldn’t blame anyone.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.17/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."}