{"id":"sn12.19","title":"The Astute and the Foolish","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.19","title":"The Astute and the Foolish","units":[{"id":"sn12.19:0","sourceIds":["sn12.19:0.1","sn12.19:0.2","sn12.19:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.19\n2. Āhāravagga\nBālapaṇḍitasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.19\n2. Fuel\nThe Astute and the Foolish"}},{"id":"sn12.19:1","sourceIds":["sn12.19:1.1","sn12.19:1.2","sn12.19:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Avijjānīvaraṇassa, bhikkhave, bālassa taṇhāya sampayuttassa evamayaṁ kāyo samudāgato.\nIti ayañceva kāyo bahiddhā ca nāmarūpaṁ, itthetaṁ dvayaṁ, dvayaṁ paṭicca phasso saḷevāyatanāni, yehi phuṭṭho bālo sukhadukkhaṁ paṭisaṁvedayati etesaṁ vā aññatarena.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, for a fool shrouded by ignorance and coupled to craving, this body has been produced.\nSo there is this duality: this body and external name and form. Contact depends on this duality. When contacted through one or other of the six sense fields, the fool experiences pleasure and pain."}},{"id":"sn12.19:2","sourceIds":["sn12.19:2.1","sn12.19:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Avijjānīvaraṇassa, bhikkhave, paṇḍitassa taṇhāya sampayuttassa evamayaṁ kāyo samudāgato.\nIti ayañceva kāyo bahiddhā ca nāmarūpaṁ, itthetaṁ dvayaṁ, dvayaṁ paṭicca phasso saḷevāyatanāni, yehi phuṭṭho paṇḍito sukhadukkhaṁ paṭisaṁvedayati etesaṁ vā aññatarena.","en":"For an astute person shrouded by ignorance and coupled to craving, this body has been produced.\nSo there is this duality: this body and external name and form. Contact depends on this duality. When contacted through one or other of the six sense fields, the astute person experiences pleasure and pain."}},{"id":"sn12.19:3","sourceIds":["sn12.19:3.1","sn12.19:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tatra, bhikkhave, ko viseso ko adhippayāso kiṁ nānākaraṇaṁ paṇḍitassa bālenā”ti?\n“Bhagavaṁmūlakā no, bhante, dhammā, bhagavaṁnettikā, bhagavaṁpaṭisaraṇā. Sādhu vata, bhante, bhagavantaṁyeva paṭibhātu etassa bhāsitassa attho. Bhagavato sutvā bhikkhū dhāressantī”ti.","en":"What, then, is the difference between the foolish and the astute?”\n“Our teachings are rooted in the Buddha. He is our guide and our refuge. Sir, may the Buddha himself please clarify the meaning of this. The mendicants will listen and remember it.”"}},{"id":"sn12.19:4","sourceIds":["sn12.19:4.1","sn12.19:4.2","sn12.19:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tena hi, bhikkhave, suṇātha, sādhukaṁ manasi karotha, bhāsissāmī”ti.\n“Evaṁ, bhante”ti kho te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"“Well then, mendicants, listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”\n“Yes, sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"sn12.19:5","sourceIds":["sn12.19:5.1","sn12.19:5.2","sn12.19:5.3","sn12.19:5.4","sn12.19:5.5","sn12.19:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yāya ca, bhikkhave, avijjāya nivutassa bālassa yāya ca taṇhāya sampayuttassa ayaṁ kāyo samudāgato, sā ceva avijjā bālassa appahīnā sā ca taṇhā aparikkhīṇā.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nNa, bhikkhave, bālo acari brahmacariyaṁ sammā dukkhakkhayāya.\nTasmā bālo kāyassa bhedā kāyūpago hoti,\nso kāyūpago samāno na parimuccati jātiyā jarāmaraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi.\n‘Na parimuccati dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.","en":"“For a fool shrouded by ignorance and coupled to craving, this body has been produced. But the fool has not given up that ignorance or finished that craving.\nWhy is that?\nThe fool has not completed the spiritual journey for the complete ending of suffering.\nTherefore, when their body breaks up, the fool passes on to another body.\nWhen they have passed on to another body, they’re not freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.\nThey’re not freed from suffering, I say."}},{"id":"sn12.19:6","sourceIds":["sn12.19:6.1","sn12.19:6.2","sn12.19:6.3","sn12.19:6.4","sn12.19:6.5","sn12.19:6.6","sn12.19:6.7","sn12.19:6.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yāya ca, bhikkhave, avijjāya nivutassa paṇḍitassa yāya ca taṇhāya sampayuttassa ayaṁ kāyo samudāgato, sā ceva avijjā paṇḍitassa pahīnā, sā ca taṇhā parikkhīṇā.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAcari, bhikkhave, paṇḍito brahmacariyaṁ sammā dukkhakkhayāya.\nTasmā paṇḍito kāyassa bhedā na kāyūpago hoti.\nSo akāyūpago samāno parimuccati jātiyā jarāmaraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi.\n‘Parimuccati dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhave, viseso, ayaṁ adhippayāso, idaṁ nānākaraṇaṁ paṇḍitassa bālena yadidaṁ brahmacariyavāso”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"For an astute person shrouded by ignorance and coupled to craving, this body has been produced. But the astute person has given up that ignorance and finished that craving.\nWhy is that?\nThe astute person has completed the spiritual journey for the complete ending of suffering.\nTherefore, when their body breaks up, the astute person does not pass on to another body.\nNot passing on to another body, they’re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.\nThey’re freed from suffering, I say.\nThis is the difference here between the foolish and the astute, that is, leading the spiritual life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.19/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."}