{"id":"sn17.4","title":"A Fleecy Sheep","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.4","title":"A Fleecy Sheep","units":[{"id":"sn17.4:0","sourceIds":["sn17.4:0.1","sn17.4:0.2","sn17.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.4\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nDīghalomikasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.4\nChapter One\nA Fleecy Sheep"}},{"id":"sn17.4:1","sourceIds":["sn17.4:1.1","sn17.4:1.2","sn17.4:1.3","sn17.4:1.4","sn17.4:1.5","sn17.4:1.6","sn17.4:1.7","sn17.4:1.8","sn17.4:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Dāruṇo, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe… adhigamāya.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, dīghalomikā eḷakā kaṇṭakagahanaṁ paviseyya.\nSā tatra tatra sajjeyya, tatra tatra gayheyya, tatra tatra bajjheyya, tatra tatra anayabyasanaṁ āpajjeyya.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, idhekacco bhikkhu lābhasakkārasilokena abhibhūto pariyādiṇṇacitto pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya gāmaṁ vā nigamaṁ vā piṇḍāya pavisati.\nSo tatra tatra sajjati, tatra tatra gayhati, tatra tatra bajjhati, tatra tatra anayabyasanaṁ āpajjati.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe…\nevañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Possessions, honor, and popularity are grim …\nSuppose a fleecy sheep was to enter a briar patch.\nShe’d get caught, snagged, and trapped at every turn, coming to ruin.\nIn the same way, take a certain mendicant whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. They robe up in the morning and, taking their bowl and robe, enter the village or town for alms.\nThey get caught, snagged, and trapped at every turn, coming to ruin.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.4/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."}