{"id":"sn12.38","title":"Intention","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.38","title":"Intention","units":[{"id":"sn12.38:0","sourceIds":["sn12.38:0.1","sn12.38:0.2","sn12.38:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.38\n4. Kaḷārakhattiyavagga\nCetanāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.38\n4. Kaḷāra the Aristocrat\nIntention"}},{"id":"sn12.38:1","sourceIds":["sn12.38:1.1","sn12.38:1.2","sn12.38:1.3","sn12.38:1.4","sn12.38:1.5","sn12.38:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Yañca, bhikkhave, ceteti yañca pakappeti yañca anuseti, ārammaṇametaṁ hoti viññāṇassa ṭhitiyā.\nĀrammaṇe sati patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa hoti.\nTasmiṁ patiṭṭhite viññāṇe virūḷhe āyatiṁ punabbhavābhinibbatti hoti.\nĀyatiṁ punabbhavābhinibbattiyā sati āyatiṁ jāti jarāmaraṇaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā sambhavanti.\nEvametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, what you intend or plan, and what you have underlying tendencies for become a support for the continuation of consciousness.\nWhen this support exists, consciousness becomes established.\nWhen consciousness is established and grows, there is regeneration into a new state of existence in the future.\nWhen there is regeneration into a new state of existence in the future, future rebirth, old age, and death come to be, as do sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering originates."}},{"id":"sn12.38:2","sourceIds":["sn12.38:2.1","sn12.38:2.2","sn12.38:2.3","sn12.38:2.4","sn12.38:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"No ce, bhikkhave, ceteti no ce pakappeti, atha ce anuseti, ārammaṇametaṁ hoti viññāṇassa ṭhitiyā.\nĀrammaṇe sati patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa hoti.\nTasmiṁ patiṭṭhite viññāṇe virūḷhe āyatiṁ punabbhavābhinibbatti hoti.\nĀyatiṁ punabbhavābhinibbattiyā sati āyatiṁ jāti jarāmaraṇaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā sambhavanti.\nEvametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.","en":"If you don’t intend or plan, but still have underlying tendencies, this becomes a support for the continuation of consciousness.\nWhen this support exists, consciousness becomes established.\nWhen consciousness is established and grows, there is regeneration into a new state of existence in the future.\nWhen there is regeneration into a new state of existence in the future, future rebirth, old age, and death come to be, as do sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering originates."}},{"id":"sn12.38:3","sourceIds":["sn12.38:3.1","sn12.38:3.2","sn12.38:3.3","sn12.38:3.4","sn12.38:3.5","sn12.38:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, no ceva ceteti no ca pakappeti no ca anuseti, ārammaṇametaṁ na hoti viññāṇassa ṭhitiyā.\nĀrammaṇe asati patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa na hoti.\nTadappatiṭṭhite viññāṇe avirūḷhe āyatiṁ punabbhavābhinibbatti na hoti.\nĀyatiṁ punabbhavābhinibbattiyā asati āyatiṁ jāti jarāmaraṇaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā nirujjhanti.\nEvametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hotī”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"If you don’t intend or plan or have underlying tendencies, this doesn’t become a support for the continuation of consciousness.\nWith no support, consciousness is not established.\nWhen consciousness is not established and doesn’t grow, there’s no regeneration into a new state of existence in the future.\nWhen there is no regeneration into a new state of existence in the future, future rebirth, old age, and death cease, as do sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.38/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."}