{"id":"sn12.58","title":"Name and Form","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.58","title":"Name and Form","units":[{"id":"sn12.58:0","sourceIds":["sn12.58:0.1","sn12.58:0.2","sn12.58:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.58\n6. Dukkhavagga\nNāmarūpasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.58\n6. Suffering\nName and Form"}},{"id":"sn12.58:1","sourceIds":["sn12.58:1.1","sn12.58:1.2","sn12.58:1.3","sn12.58:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu assādānupassino viharato nāmarūpassa avakkanti hoti.\nNāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṁ …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, name and form are conceived.\nName and form are requirements for the six sense fields. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering originates."}},{"id":"sn12.58:2","sourceIds":["sn12.58:2.1","sn12.58:2.2","sn12.58:2.3","sn12.58:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, mahārukkho.\nTassa yāni ceva mūlāni adhogamāni, yāni ca tiriyaṅgamāni, sabbāni tāni uddhaṁ ojaṁ abhiharanti.\nEvañhi so, bhikkhave, mahārukkho tadāhāro tadupādāno ciraṁ dīghamaddhānaṁ tiṭṭheyya.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu assādānupassino viharato nāmarūpassa avakkanti hoti …pe….","en":"Suppose there was a great tree.\nAnd its roots going downwards and across all draw the sap upwards.\nFed and fuelled by that, the great tree would stand for a long time.\nIn the same way, there are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, name and form are conceived. …"}},{"id":"sn12.58:3","sourceIds":["sn12.58:3.1","sn12.58:3.2","sn12.58:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato nāmarūpassa avakkanti na hoti.\nNāmarūpanirodhā saḷāyatananirodho …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hoti.","en":"There are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the drawbacks of these things, name and form are not conceived.\nWhen name and form cease, the six sense fields cease. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases."}},{"id":"sn12.58:4","sourceIds":["sn12.58:4.1","sn12.58:4.2","sn12.58:4.3","sn12.58:4.4","sn12.58:4.5","sn12.58:4.6","sn12.58:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, mahārukkho.\nAtha puriso āgaccheyya kuddālapiṭakaṁ ādāya …pe…\nāyatiṁ anuppādadhammo.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato nāmarūpassa avakkanti na hoti.\nNāmarūpanirodhā saḷāyatananirodho …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hotī”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"Suppose there was a great tree.\nThen a person comes along with a spade and basket. …\nIn this way the great tree 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, name and form are not conceived.\nWhen name and form cease, the six sense fields cease. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.58/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."}