{"id":"sn12.57","title":"A Sapling","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.57","title":"A Sapling","units":[{"id":"sn12.57:0","sourceIds":["sn12.57:0.1","sn12.57:0.2","sn12.57:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.57\n6. Dukkhavagga\nTaruṇarukkhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.57\n6. Suffering\nA Sapling"}},{"id":"sn12.57:1","sourceIds":["sn12.57:1.1","sn12.57:1.2","sn12.57:1.3","sn12.57:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu assādānupassino viharato taṇhā pavaḍḍhati.\nTaṇhāpaccayā upādānaṁ …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“There are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, your craving grows.\nCraving is a requirement for grasping. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering originates."}},{"id":"sn12.57:2","sourceIds":["sn12.57:2.1","sn12.57:2.2","sn12.57:2.3","sn12.57:2.4","sn12.57:2.5","sn12.57:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, taruṇo rukkho.\nTassa puriso kālena kālaṁ mūlāni palimajjeyya kālena kālaṁ paṁsuṁ dadeyya, kālena kālaṁ udakaṁ dadeyya.\nEvañhi so, bhikkhave, taruṇo rukkho tadāhāro tadupādāno vuddhiṁ virūḷhiṁ vepullaṁ āpajjeyya.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu assādānupassino viharato taṇhā pavaḍḍhati.\nTaṇhāpaccayā upādānaṁ …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.","en":"Suppose there was a sapling.\nAnd from time to time someone would clear around the roots, supply soil, and water it.\nFed and fuelled by that, the sapling would grow, increase, and mature.\nIn the same way, there are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, your craving grows.\nCraving is a requirement for grasping. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering originates."}},{"id":"sn12.57:3","sourceIds":["sn12.57:3.1","sn12.57:3.2","sn12.57:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato taṇhā nirujjhati.\nTaṇhānirodhā upādānanirodho …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hoti.","en":"There are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the drawbacks of these things, your craving ceases.\nWhen craving ceases, grasping ceases. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases."}},{"id":"sn12.57:4","sourceIds":["sn12.57:4.1","sn12.57:4.2","sn12.57:4.3","sn12.57:4.4","sn12.57:4.5","sn12.57:4.6","sn12.57:4.7","sn12.57:4.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, taruṇo rukkho.\nAtha puriso āgaccheyya kuddālapiṭakaṁ ādāya …pe…\nnadiyā vā sīghasotāya pavāheyya.\nEvañhi so, bhikkhave, taruṇo rukkho ucchinnamūlo assa tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato taṇhā nirujjhati.\nTaṇhānirodhā upādānanirodho …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hotī”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"Suppose there was a sapling.\nThen a person comes along with a spade and basket. …\nThey’d cut the sapling apart, cut up the parts, and chop it into splinters. They’d dry the splinters in the wind and sun, burn them with fire, and reduce them to ashes. Then they’d winnow the ashes in a strong wind, or glide them down a swift stream.\nIn this way the sapling is cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.\nIn the same way, there are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the drawbacks of these things, your craving ceases.\nWhen craving ceases, grasping ceases. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.57/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."}